It is simple; what he says, we just do not have enough time. Worse, while the space of our existence is expanding, our capacity to process it in time, shrinks. So what I am suggesting is, to grow a capacity... in a way.
What if... it would be possible to merge those anxieties into a beast that can do more. Pre-process them. Cook them into one meal, if you wish, for later. To learn from the panic, then add to it some amnesia, it will help to cope and spice it with the imposter syndrome, it will give it nice aftertaste.
But not yet act... in a way. Those are quite weighty affects, after all. Bad things happen when panic spreads, also in institutions.
So let's try to feel them, not act upon them, not try to move a way from them, but just feel them and after a while... slowly merge them. So, how, how, Karolina, what are you saying?
Let's write, I say - not act, but write, here under the table.
Berardi wrote this trying to understand the contemporary psychopathologies concerning the new form of social connectivity in what he called – semiocapitalism (an era of production of psychic stimulation.
Panic comes from Pan, otherwise known as Satyr, the god of the wild, of what is overwhelming power like what was once called nature. When half-human, half-goat, suddenly awakes, he roams, causing a feeling of total fear, panic.
Pan simply means all, you know, like in pandemia, where it is on "all people". And in pandora, the gift of all.
Panic is an overwhelm of totality, where totality stands for more one can comprehend, take, process, respond to.
Forgive me, here, the sublimating these realities through the stream of words….
Do you feel like you don't want to read this? Is it overwhelming you?
But if you bare with me for a second, I am about to make some connection.
“The interfacing of the electronic universe of transmission with the organic world of reception is producing pathological effects: panic, over-excitement, hyper-motility, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, info-overload and saturation of the neural circuitry. […] We are taken in a frenzy of forced socialization: producing and working imply being connected—so connection means working”. (ibid.)
"Sublime and panic are bordering concepts: panic is the opening of consciousness in front of the infinity of nature, the failure of rational filters of experience, and the sublime is epiphany of the unknowable. Pan submerges perception almost to the point of drowning, and the sudden arrival of Pan is provoking fear and pleasure, malaise and excitement". (Franco Berardi. 2014. And. Phenomenology of the end. Cognition and sensibility in the transition from conjunctive to connective mode of social communication. Aalto University publication series)
