ABSTRACT
Esposito argues, the exteriorization of the inside
(Esposito, “Community”; Campbell, Luisetti
et al.). Community is not obscured by the
veiling of the nothing: it is constituted by the
nothing. There is no “real” possibility lying
behind the improper. The opening of the
proper can never be filled in, enclosed upon
itself or cicatrized without using the cord of
the improper. Giving up, as Frederic Neyrat
also points out in “The Birth of Immunopoli-
tics,” should be understood as “ex-isting, a
movement outside of oneself” (Neyrat 33).
Living in a community is living outside of
oneself and therefore living in the improper.
How, then, could we ever leave the improper
behind or choose a proper existence, as Heideg-
ger once maintained, if we ourselves are always
already left behind by it? As Esposito states,
community is never a place of arrival, but
always of departure. This departure, however,
is never a leaving behind or overcoming.
