- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : X (walk the x axis), Y (walk the y axis), Origin (move to the origin)., Here describes the mathematical relation of Anxiety to Anxiety in the context of Future Anxiety.
- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : Where are we going?, The end is where we start from and in our end is our beginning., Beginning and ends are points along axes forming the vector to where are we going., They can also describe “what are we” and “where do we come from”., But the resolution of this equation is sometimes beyond the space of the graph., So we start here at the origin where there is neither past nor future anxiety., In this first model as we begin to accumulate anxiety we begin to worry about the future., This is sometimes called knowledge based anxiety or time-based-anxiety anxiety and for others it is referred to as progressive inverse optimism – pessimism for short.
- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : We re-start at the next origin where there is only anxiety of the future., As we move back from the end of accumulated anxieties we arrive at the end of the precipitous drop of future anxiety, This fast and willful disambiguation of the self reduces anxiety-anxiety to anxiety and this is perilous., Sometimes this is the effect of faith., Sometimes it is the effect of work., This disambiguation of the self is to know what are we in the face of future anxiety., But here there is only will and no future as there is no real anxiety., Potential opens before us as a path but we have no idea what it is .
- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : We now move to the point that is not the first origin described but whose conditions are similar, Here there is no anxiety by volume but the origin is the clear pit of self disambiguation, This is the titration or neutralization model where equal proportions of Past and Future anxiety produces the still point that moves along with anxiety, as we accumulate past anxieties we arrive at this still point that is not so much still as an origin and anticipate the slope of anxiety to the future that rises up before us, This is where the burden of interface brings us., This is the place to ask where are we going because in our end is our beginning.
- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : Looking back from the still point reveals that now it is the future that causes the past to be anxious.
- Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties : And in the end, as seen in the middle of the middle graph, and the first of the first graph,, The revenge of past anxieties on the future is only anxiety., Because they are equal in force but opposite in direction when they turn to each other to ask where are we going, the reply is always here and anxious., That is, the memory of anxiety creates future anxiety as much as future anxiety of the past produces anxiety., What we think of as anxiety, both past anxieties, anxiety of the past and future anxiety are the same anxiety, which is the anxiety here and now.
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Where are we going: The relation of Anxiety to Anxiety
View presentation on YouTube. (From Human Rights Watch, performances curated by Michael Mahalchick at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
A revisiting of Gauguin’s painting “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” and T.S.Eliot’s The Four Quartets in the form of PowerPoint in terms of the mathematical relation of anxiety to anxiety..