Text originally published in Po&sie, n. 47, 1988, and included in Une pensée finie (1990). The text is located in the context of works on the community and Georges Bataille. In the Spring 1983, came out the essay La communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative Community), in the magazine Alea (n. 4), later (in 1986) included in the homonymous volume, with two other essays. What is at stake in both instances is writing "in community with Georges Bataille". "Writing" written in this case in an exterior locus marked by the prefix ex-, therefore "ex-cription" (excrire). Writing, as "excription" (excrit), to which is added the homonophic meaning of "shouting" or "crying" (cri, to shout, in French). Writing for Georges Bataille, or "excribing" (ex-crire), points towards an essentially equivocal meaning: one always writes the cry and not "about" the cry, life, the "thing itself", Being, which means, that which by definition cannot be written, that which precludes and excludes any possibility of writing. Ex-crit ("excribed") however does not refer to a referent such as, for example, Georges Bataille's life, but to something which inscribes itself (or ex-cribes) always and only in the ex-cription.
Georges Bataille; writing