Warner 161: "[W]hen images or texts can be understood as meaningful to a public rather than simply to oneself, or to specific others," they can "be called public"
when we apprehend something as public, "[w]e adopt the attitude of the public subject, [even if it requires] marking to ourselves its nonindentity with ourselves" (160)
"we imagine, if imperfectly, indifference to [our] particularities"
(such as "culture, race, gender, or class")