RESONANCE Reading Group #3

A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World – Chapter 5, by Hartmut Rosa

March 16, 2026 | 12:30 PM

Room A206, NOVA FCSH (Av. Berna)

The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979). This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.

The second session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 5 of the book Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, by Hartmut Rosa (English translation). The chapter – Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World – explores two social effects of Rosa’s approach to a material-discursive (radical) relationality that is inherently affective. This is a crucial text to explore the material relationality of bodies, space, and the vibrations of modernity as both a historical category and a pernicious, insidious, infrastructure impacting our living in the world. This reading group is going to be led by Hélia Marçal (IHA, FCSH-UNL).

You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive a PDF copy of the chapter.

More information about the RESONANCE project here.