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resonance

via philosophy.com by Gary Sauer-Thompson on 2/1/11

In his Space and Politics blog Gastón Gordillo introduces the concept of resonance to make sense of what is happening in the streets of Cairo. He says: What has coalesced as a powerful, unstoppable force on the streets of Egypt is resonance: the assertive collective empathy created by multitudes fighting for the control of space. Resonance is an intensely bodily, spatial, political affair, materialized in the masses of bodies coming together in the streets of Egyptian cities in the past thirteen days, clashing with the police, temporarily dispersed by teargas and bullets, and regrouping again like an relentless swarm to reclaim the streets, push the police back, and saturate space with a collective effervescence. Resonance is what gives life to this human rhizome and the source of its power. This understanding of resonance that focuses on the bodily and subjective dimensions of resonance is new to me. Gordillo adds that:...

 

 

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