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Openness precedes security or identity because worlds and things can never be hermetically sealed. There’s a prior precariousness or vulnerability to things. Against their efforts to maintain themselves, they’re already pulled out of themselves into uncontrollable relations. This is essential to any world or thing (otherwise the ‘thing,’ the X, would be closed in on itself, unplaceable in any other disclosure, and hence, because it would be unable to encounter others, it would lack even a disclosure it could call its own). A thing is its openness, and it is because of its openness.
This openness of things enables communicability and meaning. For one trying to secure against loss, this openness may be interpreted as violent. And in attempting to secure against it, the violence is projected outwards.
This doesn’t mean that we won’t or shouldn’t identify or secure things — I don’t think we could stop if we wanted to; it’s a question of how we think of identification and security.