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Abstract
This dissertation process is a Dionysian machine opening space for the yet to come through a logic of resonance. It aims to highlight the potential in resonance, sound, and music to create more open meanings than those found in languages conventional binary logic. Focusing on resonance as something real and abstract that is useful for the questioning of systems of thought led to a method of new empirical paradoxical composition that calls for a post- representational conversion functioning before any determined ontology. Therefore, this document is a multi-layered narrative, or composition, constructed to incite a creative activity of thought through a logic of resonance, rather than provide specific findings within an established regime of truth. Conventional humanist qualitative inquiry and its confining standards of validity are brought into question and playfully ruptured, replacing judgment that relies on a logic of specialization with a valorization of creativity and wonder. This machine works to make room for art and philosophy in the discipline of mass communication. A proposal for an ontogenetic communication, that breaks from the binary sender-receiver model and uses the constitutive potential of an aesthetic and musical approach, is composed. Also, a design for a Dionysian instrument is presented, and a story about a black bag floating in the waves.