NEW YORK CITY - JANUARY 28: New York City Fugitive Operations Team conducted enforcement operations resulting in the arrest of a Dominican national. (Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

I used to say that I didn’t care about what others think. But I did. I still do actually. What I believe now is that we never really stop caring about what others think. It never goes away completely.

This text was co-commissioned by Katia Krupennikova and Inga Lāce as part of four special contributions to e-flux journal—two texts published in the present November 2020 issue, and two more in the ...

Anxiety’s greatest trick is that it convinces us to care about and pay attention to everything, even things that, in the larger picture, do not necessarily matter. This can result in over-attention or ...