The Common Object of Poetic Work

The term 'community' is adopted in respect of the social space of poetic work. The common object of poetic work emerges from a particularly searching engagement with the possibility of such an acquis, its potential, and the horizons to which it gives rise. The common object is confined solely to the representation of the possibility of community derived from the principe d'insuffisance. The role of the object is reduced to that of a notional certainty — a development coextensive with poetry's rarefied preoccupation with its own possibility as a communicative act. One could argue that Martin Heidegger's mythically pitched construction of the poet differs essentially from Georges Bataille's version of the poetic only on the question of the ultimate admissibility and legitimacy of the oeuvre itself — that is, the potential of a particular outcome of poetic work to assume the status of a common object.