The exposure and normativity co<sup>n</sup>ditioning us also condition the othe'r. Our relation to each other, the mutual dependence through which we impinge upon one other, condenses into a kind of irreducible, enigmatic stress, an excessive unknowability which addresses us and which we cannot avoid. Describing this "signifying stress" immanent to our relations with ot�ers, Eric Santner writes: "To use a Heideggerian locution, our thrownness into the world does not simply mean that we always find ourselves in the midst of a social formation that we did not choose . . . it means, more importantlJ that this social formation in which we find ourselves immersed is itself permeated by inconsistency and incompleteness, is itself haunted by a lack by which we are, in some peculiar way, addressed, 'excited� to which we are in some fashion answerable . . . reality is never fully identical with itself, is fissured by lack."19 Santner adds to Butler's account of the conditions of address an emphasis on how a certain lack within these very conditions addresses us as wel. Our conditions are inconsistent and incomplete, exposed to potentials unfulilled, harms unrecognized and unredressed.
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