(p.31) This is why community cannot arise from the domain of work. One does not produce it, one experiences or one is constituted by it - the experience of finitude. Community understood as a work or through its works would presuppose that the common being, as such be objectifiable and producible (in sites, persons, buildings, discourses, institutions, symbols, subjects). Products derived from operations of this kind, however grandiose they might seek to be and sometimes manage to be, have no more communitarian existence than the plaster busts of Marianne. Community necessarily takes place in what Blanchot has called " unworking," referring...

(p.39) But ecstasy comes at a price: at the risk of being nothing more than an erotic or fascist work of death, ecstasy passes through the inscription of finitude and its communication. Which is to say that it also presupposes, necessarily, works (literary, political, etc.). But what is inscribed, and what passes to the limit in inscribing itself, exposes and communicates itself  (instead of trying to accomplish a meaning, like speech): what is shared is the unworking of works.