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Ontogony: From a Mute World to the Participatory Turn

We begin not with a solution, but with the felt quality of a problem. The modern condition is marked by a profound and pervasive sense of alienation, a feeling that the world has fallen silent. The sociologist Hartmut Rosa gives this experience a precise diagnosis: it is the result of a structural shift in our fundamental relationship to the world, transforming it from a potential partner in a dialogue of "resonance" into a "mute" and hostile "point of aggression". Under the relentless logic of social acceleration—a system of "dynamic stabilization" that demands perpetual growth, innovation, and optimization for its very survival—our engagement with reality is increasingly defined by an instrumental and aggress