Beschleunigen wir die Resonanz!

Hartmut Rosa
Beschleunigen wir die Resonanz!
Gespräche mit Nathanaël Wallenhorst
(translated from the French by Christine Pries)
Berlin: Suhrkamp publishing house, 2024
ISBN 978-3-518-47356-6
97 pages
14 EUR

With Resonanz, Hartmut Rosa has proposed a concept to counteract the hegemonic and reifying acceleration of rentier and speculative capitalism. According to him, the profound transformation of our societies will only succeed if we are prepared to enter into a new relationship with the world that is characterised by a "responsive" relationship with it. What could this response consist of in concrete terms? And above all, how could it help the younger generation to live with the reality of the Anthropocene? In contrast to the education of "sustainability", resonance seems to be a new paradigm that can bring about a different world in which humans and non-humans would no longer face each other. It is time, says Rosa, to listen to what the world has to tell us...