Crary 21: "A current in contemporary political theory posits exposure [my emphasis] as a fundamental or transhistorical feature of what has always constituted an individual"
"an individual cannot be understood except in relation to what it outside them, to an otherness that faces them"
"we are now at a historical moment when this bare condition of exposure has been unhinged from its relation to communal forms that at least tentatively offered safekeeping or care"