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SITES OF EXPOSURE
 STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT

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 SITES
of
EXPOSURE
ART, POLITICS,
and
THE NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

JOHN RUSSON

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

This book is a publication of

Indiana University Press

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© 2017 by John Russon

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For Shannon Hoff, a committed and original philosophical thinker and
a wonderful person with whom to share experiences
 “By one river it divides two lands.”

—Gallus, fragment 1

“Those who listen to the word then follow the best of it; those are
they whom Allah has guided, and those it is who are the men of
understanding.”

—The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 39, Verse 18

 CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Portraits
Lesson 1: On Being a Subject
Lesson 2: The Event of Experience and the Advent of Meaning
Lesson 3: Things

2. Home
Lesson 4: Accommodation
Lesson 5: Home with Others
Lesson 6: Inhabiting Language

3. Exposure
Lesson 7: The Ambivalence of Being at Home
Lesson 8: The Environment of Indifference
A. Indifference, Relative and Absolute
B. Cultural Specificity
C. Indifferent Universality and Its Problems
Lesson 9: Sugchōrein: Domestic Politics and Civic Ecology
A. The Freedom of Belonging and the Role of the State
B. The Challenge of Multiculturalism
C. The Goal of Political Life

4. Thanksgiving
Lesson 10: Conscience: Calling and Madness
Lesson 11: Art as the Celebration of the Now
Lesson 12: Thanksgiving as Practice

Appendix: Notes for Further Study

Bibliography
Index
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

JILL GILBERT is responsible for me writing this book, and I am grateful

to her for challenging me to do so while she was writing her doctoral
dissertation. I wrote almost the entire book at I Deal Coffee, on
Ossington Avenue in Toronto, sitting across the table from Shannon
Hoff, to whom this book is dedicated and to whom I offer my thanks
for ongoing companionship, for talking through the ideas, and for
reading the manuscript. I learned most of what I know about the
ancient Greeks from Patricia Fagan; Luis Jacob and Kirsten Swenson
are largely responsible for my knowledge of contemporary art and
Philip Sohm for my knowledge of Renaissance painting. I am deeply
grateful to each of these remarkable individuals for the ways in
which they have enriched my life by sharing their passionate
commitment to their fields and by their friendship. I am grateful as
well to many friends and colleagues who were very helpful to me
while I worked on this book and in my studies in general—most
notably Pravesh Jung and Siby George at IIT-Bombay; Prasenjit
Biswas and Xavier Mau at NEHU in Shillong; Ömer Aygün at
Galatasary University in Istanbul; Kirsten Jacobson at the University
of Maine; Kym Maclaren and David Ciavatta at Ryerson University;
John Sallis at Boston College; Caren Irr at Brandeis University;
Gregory Nagy at Harvard University; John Lysaker, John Stuhr, Susan
Bredlau, and Andrew Mitchell at Emory University; Galen Johnson at
the University of Rhode Island; Mark Munn at Pennsylvania State
University; Matthew Ratcliffe at the University of Vienna; Phil
Hutchinson at Manchester Metropolitan University; Greg Kirk and Joe
Arel at Northern Arizona University; Scott Marratto and Alexandra
Morrison at Michigan Technological University; Jay Lampert and Eva
Simms at Duquesne University; Whitney Howell at LaSalle University;
Laura McMahon at Eastern Michigan University; Jason Wirth at
Seattle University; Jing Long at Jilin University; Evan Thompson at
the University of British Columbia; Bob Sweetman at the Institute for
Christian Studies; David Morris at Concordia University; Réal Fillion
at Laurentian University; Peter Simpson, Director General of the
Canadian Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; and Victor
Bateman, John Burbidge, Ray Cleveland, Charlie Cooper-Simpson,
Maliheh Deyhim, Eli Diamond, Nick Fraser, Ali Karbalaei, Adam
Loughnane, Bronwen Mc-Cann, Jeff Morrisey, Graeme Nicholson,
Belinda Piercy, Brian Rogers, Kenneth L. Schmitz, Abe Schoener,
Jacob Singer, and Bill Smith. Reproducing artworks can be
complicated logistically, and so I also wish to thank all the individuals
and institutions I worked with in securing the images used in this
book and the permission to reproduce them, the details of which are
found in the figure captions; I am especially grateful to Karen
Reichenbach of Artangel in London, Carolyn Cruthirds of the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston, Bart de Sitter of the Royal Museum of Fine Art
in Antwerp, and Tracy Mallon-Jensen of the Art Gallery of Ontario,
each of whom was exceptionally nice and helpful. I am also grateful
to Dee Mortensen for her help and support in making possible the
publication of this book and to Gail Naron Chalew, whose careful
copy-editing of the manuscript resulted in many improvements.
SITES OF EXPOSURE
 Introduction

IT IS SOMETIMES difficult to introduce one person to another. The

difficulty lies in finding a description that seems true to the person.
We want to express her life and personality, but we settle for a name
and some stale, superficial descriptions: “This is Judith, from
Montreal. She’s a geography major at Concordia, and she’s a good
friend of Mei.” Ultimately, we want to communicate what it is like to
know this person and how she makes something exciting and unique
out of her engagement with the world, but our sentences cannot
really convey that. Instead, they simply list static features, intended
to spark interest. Indeed, what we really want to say is “You should
get to know her”: it is only through living interaction with her that
our friend can truly reveal herself, and we make our introductions to
facilitate such an interaction. The introduction, in other words, is not
meant as a true portrayal, but only as a prompt to draw another
person in and as an exhortation for the two to engage with each
other; it is be discarded as quickly as possible in favor of actual
immersion in dialogue.
Introducing a work of philosophy poses similar difficulties. Like
another person, a work of philosophy is not a static assembly of
facts, but is something with which one must develop a personal
relationship: it is only philosophy if it speaks directly to you. Like
another person, philosophy is something that can change one, and,
also like a person, it is something that can reveal its meaning only in
and through one’s interaction with it: the meaning of the work
cannot be adequately portrayed in advance or in a series of
superficial descriptions, but will reveal itself only through one’s
immersion in it, only through one’s allowing it to show itself on its
own terms.
And so, although I want here to lead you into this book, I
nonetheless hope you will quickly discard this introduction. My
intention is to outline briefly a few ideas that will spur you to read
the book and will give you a reasonable sense of what you will
encounter by reading it. I do not, however, want to undermine the
possibility of the book revealing itself to you in its own way, as the
“trailers” for Hollywood movies sometimes do when they reveal in
advance too much about the movie, making it impossible for the film
to deploy its own narrative powers to lead you into the mystery and
excitement of its subject. My real hope is simply that you will turn as
quickly as possible to chapter 1 and start reading.
Fundamentally, this book is about our human situation. It is
about what the world that we live in is like and what it is like for us
to live in it. In a very concrete sense, it is an attempt to understand
who we are. To make sense of ourselves, we can always easily turn
to the newspaper or the internet for the current “facts” about our
situation, but the reports these media offer are only minimally
contextualized, highly selective, and heavily laden with interpretive
assumptions; indeed, because these media typically take it for
granted that the basic terms in which they analyze the world are
already clear, they present a nicely packaged product that, in fact,
suppresses what are really the most important questions. This book
offers instead an interpretive study that begins from “first
principles”; that is, it does not assume that the terms for
understanding ourselves are already established. Instead, it starts by
asking “What kind of thing are we?” and “What kind of thing is the
world?” and then attempts to understand our concrete,
contemporary situation in terms of the answers to these basic
questions. As an attempt to grasp the distinctive character of our
experience, it is thus ultimately a book about “human nature,” but
not in the sense of prescribing a fixed essence that determines
whether we are measuring up adequately to some preordained
norm. Instead it asks what it is like to exist as a person, what the
characteristic challenges are that we face as persons, and what are
the distinctive capacities that we bring to bear on those challenges.
Both in general terms and in relation to specific situations, it asks
the questions that begin Plato’s dialogues Lysis and Phaedrus:
“Where have we come from?” and “Where are we going?”
Because this book is about our distinctive capacities and the
world that provides the setting in which we deploy them, I initially
thought to entitle it Experience and Reality. I eventually settled on
the title, Sites of Exposure, however, because what I ultimately want
to show about the relationship of experience to reality—about our
distinctive, human situation—is that, in all our affairs, we
fundamentally are dealing with a kind of exposure, a contact with an
outside. It is in and through this contact with a challenging outside
that we must make our lives, and the book is a study of how we
make for ourselves a home in this outside, in this world to which we
are exposed. I will argue that the dynamic interaction of being-
exposed and being-at-home is what defines our life, and this is so at
every level of our experience—from the most basic domains of bodily
interaction with the physical environment to our political
engagements with other people and to our most personal
engagement with intimate matters of meaning and value. The four
chapters of this book explore progressively deeper and more
demanding dimensions of this dynamic interaction of home and
exposure.
Chapter 1, “Portraits,” is devoted to describing the distinct
character of our experience: although as living bodies we are things
in the world like everything else, as subjects we must struggle to
find the meaning of the world, and this task exposes us both to
satisfaction, understanding, and joy and to frustration, puzzlement,
and even crippling anxiety. We exist at the intersection of the
demands of accommodating ourselves to the terms of the world
—“objectivity”—and the demands of accommodating ourselves to
the terms of our own reality—“subjectivity.” These two sets of
demands are both vast, and they do not always or easily fit together.
Our attempts to live meaningful lives are attempts to navigate these
demands and the tensions between them. Chapters 2 through 4
investigate the processes and practices of this navigation.
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