Community and Writing: between literary communism and the writing of dissent

Abstract

This article intends to establish a dialogue between the French philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière, inasmuch as for the two authors writing constitutes a kind of paradigmatic instance to think of being-in-common as interruption of a certain distribution of the sensible, associated with the logic of the immanence or closure of the sense for Nancy, and the representative regime of literature that has to do with a consensual community, in the case of Rancière. At the basis of both positions two common aspects that are essential can be identified: a critique of subjectivity as an exclusion of otherness, and the idea of a community that always appears, coexists, or already exists within the very heart of that community identical to itself, mythical community or consensual utopia, of which it is its interruption.