Until the process of adaptive transformation is completed, we fundamentally cannot know in what way or how deeply we will be changed when we really get involved with another person, another form of life, an idea, a book, or a landscape. This means, however, that the transformative effects of a resonant relationship always and inevitably elude any planning on the part of subjects. They can be neither predicted nor controlled, and this makes them particularly important to a critique of controllability such as the one I am elaborating here. Because resonance is inherently open-ended in terms of
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