“… In passing to its limit, finitude passes “from” the one “to” the other: this passage makes up the sharing. moreover, there is no entity or hypostasis of community because this sharing, this passage cannot be completed. incompletion is its “principle,” taking the term “incompletion” in an active sense, however, as designating not insufficiency or lack, but the activity of sharing, the dynamic, if you will, of an uninterrupted passage through singular ruptures. that is to say, once again, a workless and inoperative activity. it is not a matter of making, producing, or instituting a community; nor is it a matter of venerating or fearing within it a sacred power–it is a matter of incompleting its sharing. sharing is always incomplete, or it is beyond completion and incompletion. for a complete sharing implies the disappearance of what is shared.”

(jean-luc nancy, the inoperative community)