The coming community: The singular time of the subject

Abstract

We observe that the ideas of community and time in Agamben are strongly linked. At the moment of thinking the community we consider inevitable its interaction with the idea of time, in fact we see that such a correspondence is implicit in the thought of community. Nevertheless it is necessary to demonstrate the nucleus of this correlation, given that it is not possible to talk about the community without referring to the time of the subject. The subject is who does experiment the time and who is able to perceive the own time and to assume it, and for whom to self recognize into the time is possible at well as to experiment (it), to occupy (it) and to live (it) in common is. In the present analysis we will see that the time, as a place for the experience, is itself in the community. In fact, it becomes evident that the community is continuously disclosing1 within the time in which it is. Moreover, the community produces an idea of time that neither is related to a destiny nor is linked with an eventual delimitated future. In this context the time is not only a subjective condition of the subject but it deals with a practice both subjective and intersubjective. Because, at the moment of the time experience, simultaneously occurs that the subject appropriates and communicates it. By this way the community be-comes in the experience of the subject and belongs to the now time of the occurring, where the singular be being and the common future are conjugated.