ABSENCE IN COMMON

Absence In Common: An Operator for an Inoperative Community

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This essay by Kevin Hamilton is definitely one of the most profoundly affective pieces I’ve ever read. The circumstances and personal contexts of my life when I first came upon this essay were serendipitous to the vastness of its meaning.  Its the vastness and void between people that Hamilton speaks about. Echoing Agamben’s desire for a “whatever singularity”, Hamilton takes us across Jean-Luc-Nancy’s threshold of “the singularity” and opens a contemplation of being by way of absence in common.

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