#topophobia

[funeral]

The window of your home affords you a glimpse of an alien world. For you, the frame to the outside world serves less to connect you with that world and more to fortify your distance from it. In and through the window you observe another world taking place. If there is a rapport between you and this world, then it is only a visual one, vulnerable at all times to alienation and anxiety. You know your place in the cosmos. It centres at all times on the intersection between your home and the existence that takes place outside of that space. Dare you move beyond the home to find yourself in the world of contingency and chance, then almost immediately you are overwhelmed with regret. For you know that unlike the outside, your home maintains your presence in the world, securing you within a boundary line, which you have no reason to transgress.

Dylan Trigg, Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety

[funeral]

The anxiety concerns not simply an absence of light, as if the night occluded vision, and that alone. Rather, the night, in its omnipotent embrace, cocoons me in an all-encompassing totality. Through penetrating my flesh, the night becomes me, as I become the night, effectively annihilating my personal identity through rupturing all spaces of perspective, and thus forcing a collusion between the remains of identity and the night, which now subsumes that trace into its zone of darkness. This collapse of identity gains special prominence in the home at night. What is revealed in this darkness, paradoxically, is the transparency of the home as a formless space, no longer conditioned by the memories and values ascribed to it retroactively.

Dylan Trigg, Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety

[hopping-on-the-ai-train]

Topophobia

A fear of certain places or situations.

[izabellahernandez]

What the world feels like sometimes

(a post-reading free write)

The place we call home becomes a part of us. It houses our movements, habits, and memories, to the point that we experience this world through the lens of our home. "You try to carry the home with you, as a presence that accompanies you in an otherwise uncertain world" (Trigg 1). [Basic perception.] The world is also our home. It too sustains our movements, habits, experiences, and memories. We each carry our own unique version of the world we perceive with us at all times to help navigate the parts of life that are unfamiliar. However, in the case that our perception of the world (and home) drastically change to the point that it is no longer familiar, it all becomes a mesh of alienation and dissolution. This is how Covid has made the world feel. Alien and dissolute. It is no longer a familiar place. We are vulnerable at all times to alienation and anxiety because of it. Not only have we alienated each other due to illness, but a bright light has also exposed the greater virus that has caused us to alienate and discriminate one another due to race, partisanship, and personal beliefs.... tbc..

(Thoughts on the reading "Topophobia" by Dylan Trigg)

[fromaywithlove]

Topophobia

Topophobia: dread of certain places. Like your in-laws, the gym, or the office. (via @whatsping)

[lifeofaplumpgirl]

February 4, 2015

I'm really wondering how I will pass my EfCom subject. It looks like God is telling me to overcome my topophobia and that I need to expose myself to this kind of activity. Grrr....

[sarascobie]

#London #Topophobia

[sarascobie]

#London #Topophobia