exposure, pt 2

... acceptance of the reality of material forces, the acceptance of fate. Exposure to the world is not the search for an essence elsewhere, but the full dwelling in this world, the belief in this world. The unexposed might construct an interior world, a separate realm of depths and abysses; exposure, in contrast, lays all of being equally on the surface, in the flesh. Exposed being is univocal; being is said always and everywhere in the same voice. It is not defined by being different in itself. When we expose ourselves to the force of things we realize this ontological condition, the immanence of being in existence. we merge with the destiny we are living and are swept along in its powerful flux.

- Michael Hardt - "Prison time," Yale French Studies Vol. 91, 1997, pg 68