I’m assembling an essay on queer death, which has as one of its illuminating points Georges Bataille’s notion of “the community of those who have no community” — the impossibility of presence except as revealed through the death’s intimacy. So I look forward to hearing your thoughts on a remarkable though ephemeral text which treats this incommunicable remainder: Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. Let’s consider its first section, “The Negative Community” (pp. 1-26) on Tuesday. Thanks in advance for your indulgence.