Alienation and the Sense of Possibility

What alienation theories and studies have in common is that they can be understood (implicitly) as contemporary seismographic reflections on social problems that reveal an "incompatibility" of the individual with the social structural dimension. If for Marx it is primarily a matter of structures of alienation that arise from alienated and alienating work practices and organization, exchange value and not least the commodification of everyone and everything, then analyses of alienation can be understood as depending on the particular form of human coexistence under the given formation of society. In this framework, it seems interesting to shed light on the currently significant (global) socio-cultural and political shifts in society with the help of Lefebvre's rhythm analysis. That is, the rhythms of the immanent relations between everyday life and social structure are to be addressed. In this context, the question arises whether and how currently developing social tendencies and their immanent contradictions can be anticipated in order to recognize, understand and react to possible future alienation scenarios.