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Situation und Konstellation
Rosa's 2025 German-language work extending the resonance-uncontrollability framework directly into the domain of algorithmic governance and AI — the text that makes the Spielraum the central operational concept of his AI critique.
Situation und Konstellation, published by Suhrkamp in 2025, is Rosa's most direct engagement with the AI transition. The book extends his earlier framework into the domain of algorithmic systems with explicit focus: the specific ways in which AI and related technologies eliminate the Spielraum in which genuine human action is possible, the mechanisms through which this elimination operates, and the institutional responses that would be required to preserve the conditions for human flourishing in an age of algorithmic governance. The book's central argument, developed across its chapters, is that the AI transition represents the most severe stress test that Rosa's framework has yet encountered — a test that, on Rosa's reading, the framework passes with uncomfortable clarity.
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The book's title refers to the distinction between a situation (a set of circumstances requiring judgment and response) and a constellation (a pre-structured arrangement that determines response without requiring judgment). Rosa argues that algorithmic systems systematically