MEMO
FROM: Jean-Luc Nancy
TO: Social software designers
Community necessarily takes place in what Blanchot has called "unworking", referring to that which, before or beyond the work, withdraws from the work, and which, no longer having to do with either production or with completion, encounters interruption, fragmentation, suspension. Community is made of the interruption of singularities, or of the suspension that singular beings are. Community is not the work of singular beings, nor can it claim them as its works, just as communication is not a work or even an operation of singular beings, for community is simply their being -- their being suspended on its limit. Communication is the unworking of work that is social, economic, technical and institutional.-- p.31, The Inoperable Community, trans. Connor, Garbus, Holland & Sawnhey, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1991
