pThis book makes a compelling case for utilising experiences of resonance in various academic and societal fields. p pThe concept of resonance was first introduced by Hartmut Rosa to foreground the importance of affective, emotional, transformative and uncontrollable experiences in socio-political contexts that he characterizes as alienating. Based on a critical reading of Rosa's theory and further developed through engagement with Theodor W. Adorno, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler and others, this book introduces the notion of a 'spectrum of resonance' which encompasses both icritical resonance iand iaffirmationisti iresonancei. This spectrum of resonance is used to analyse various forms of aesthetic experience illustrated with reference to Edgar Reitz's film iHeimati and the music of Nick Cave and Kayhan Kalhor.p pThe spectrum is also deployed in the fields of museum, memory and trauma studies to show how experiences of resonance contribute to the constitution of politic