Abstract
This essay starts from a theoretical articulation around absence, in order to explore categories (existence, experience, exile) that support the proposition of a poetics of origin, inseparable from the question of absence. Such poetics of origin - as the production of language that must always be updated - is thought of in relation to a life in common, that is, to a politics that escapes the positive limits of presence, property and representation.
Keywords:
absence; poetics; origin; community; politics