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Resonance
Consonia accumulans·the Answering Cloud
From Latin consonare, to sound together, and accumulare, to heap up; it answers what moves in time with it and heaps each answer on the last.
- Level
- Conceptorganism
- Book
- Mineralsthe mineralogical treatise
- Phylum
- Cycleimage schema
- Class
- Mechanismits lattice
- Niche
- Producerraw experience
- Mode
- Reproductionhow it keeps existing
- Stage
- Matureindividuated
- Status
- Living
- Habitat
- Body
Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Motion · Wilkins, 1668: Motion · WordNet, 1990: Phenomenon · Llull, 1308: I · Elementative
A system answers most strongly to what moves at its own rhythm, so timing can matter more than force.
Small forces well timed outweigh large forces badly timed.
behavior Lies slack and dim until something nearby moves at its own frequency, then swells, ring by ring, until it hums.
What would a building, an institution or a conversation look like if it could not be pushed hard, only timed well?
I Dissection
Each organ answers one question about the idea. The framed one, its mechanism, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.
Fig. 1. Kernel
Natural frequency
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
A body driven at its own natural frequency takes in energy far more readily than at any other, so a small periodic push can build a large response.1
drawn as: seed crystal · view: transparent
Fig. 2. Boundary
Critical damping
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is defined against what is aperiodic and against damping; where energy leaks away faster than it builds, there is no resonance.1
drawn as: rind · view: microscope
Fig. 3. Intake
Driving force
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It needs a periodic driving force, a body with a natural frequency close to that force, and damping low enough for energy to be stored between pushes.1
drawn as: mother liquor · view: pinned
Fig. 4. Mechanism
Pushed swing
❦ dominant organHow does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Each push arrives in phase with the motion it meets, so energy accumulates cycle after cycle faster than damping can remove it.1
drawn as: lattice · view: cross section
Fig. 5. Output
Standing wave
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
One frequency is amplified above all others, which gives sustained oscillation, selectivity (tuning) and coupling between bodies that are far apart.1, 2
drawn as: habit · view: series
Fig. 6. Dispersal
Sympathetic vibration
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It travels as the image of the tuning fork and the singing glass, and as the metaphor of being in tune with people, places and the world.3
drawn as: shard · view: pressed
Fig. 7. Decay
Shattered glass
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
It cannot digest what is not periodic, the one-off event and broadband noise; left unchecked it runs into destructive amplification, and as a metaphor it thins into vague talk of good vibrations.4, 3
drawn as: weathering · view: series
II Meaning associations
descent membership food web resemblance or friction
Lineage
A founder, dissected by hand.
Kin
same kind in Roget Resonance (Automata)
same kind in Wilkins Resonance (Automata)
same kind in WordNet Emergence, Placebo, Rain, Resonance (Automata), Storm, Wind
same kind in Llull Amber, Emergence, Entanglement, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Rain, Resonance (Automata), Salt, Storm, Wind, Self-Ending Order
same phylum Breath, Echolalia, Metamorphosis, Commemorative Revision, Fear's Breath, The Festival Calendar, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry
same dominant organ Chimera, Dream, Fire, Metamorphosis, Music, Presence, Ritual, Storm, Symbol, The Common Lung, Self-Fulfilling Alarm, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Witnessed Relief (Mycelia), Commemorative Revision, Fear's Breath, The Shaping Pause, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry, Subtractive Phenomenology
Genome
- frequency also in Resonance (Automata)
- coupling
- amplification
- attunement also in Resonance (Automata)
- periodicity
III In the world
Echoes
- a child pumping a swing higher by leaning in time
- a wine glass shattered by a sung note at its pitch
- the 1:2:4 orbital resonance of Io, Europa and Ganymede
- magnetic resonance imaging
IV Record
How it was drawn
its draw 1, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.
| axis | value | |
|---|---|---|
| book | minerals | |
| symmetry | spiral | |
| organization | segmented | |
| silhouette | winged | |
| scale | immense | |
| proportion | graded | |
| growth | swelling | |
| articulation | imbricate latent | |
| openness | spongy latent | |
| skeleton | woody latent | |
| locomotion | undulating latent | |
| pattern | rosettes latent | |
| coloration | nuptial latent | |
| substance | silk | |
| surface | pleated | |
| palette | frost | |
| luminosity | inner glow | |
| transparency | layered latent | |
| gesture | pulses | |
| unity | unmarked latent | |
| modality | contingent latent | |
| causation | unmarked latent | |
| determinacy | unmarked latent | |
| fusion | nested | |
| anomaly | orbiting | |
| graft | mirrors | |
| technique | engraving | |
| viewpoint | profile | |
| value | low key | |
| balance | cantilevered latent | |
| density | graded detail latent | |
| rhythm | unmarked latent | |
| saturation | vivid | |
| appendages | bells | |
| anchor (body) | a cluster of gypsum crystal, its bladed plates grown in flat sandy whorls | |
| anchor (detail) | a Chladni figure, sand gathered into the nodal lines of a vibrating plate |
Sources
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I, ch. 23, Resonance (1963)
- The Laplace resonance of Jupiter's Galilean moons
- Hartmut Rosa, Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (2016; English 2019)
- Breaking a wine glass with the voice, a classroom demonstration of resonance
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