ABSTRACT
The contribution takes a critical look at the way modes of resonance have developed (or disappeared) in the digital era. Its main argument is that modernity is based on the escalatory logic of social acceleration and social dynamisation, which means that modern societies cannot do without constant growth, innovation and optimisation. Today, processes of digitalisation have become the core-drivers of material growth, technological acceleration and cultural innovation. But what they also do is to change our modes of being-in and relating to the world, and here, the results are culturally ambivalent: While they increase the quantities of communication and connection, they tend to produce mute or alienated forms of relation: echo-chambers instead of spaces of resonance.
