Die kommende Gemeinschaft

The coming being is neither individual nor general, but arbitrary. Singular, but without identity. Certain, but only in the empty space of the example. And yet neither general nor indifferent: on the contrary, it is of such a nature that it always comes on. It is the very object of love. Its logic: the paradoxes of set theory, the indistinguishability of a class from its elements, a thing from its name. Its ethics: to be only one's own mode of being, to be capable of nothing but one's own possibility or potency, which language experiences as such. Its politics: to form a community without any precondition or condition of belonging (to be Italian, red, Muslim, communist), the irrevocable exodus from the state, the construction of a communicable body. "Giorgio Agamben is one of the most demanding and precise writers who.