essay
by EMANUELE COCCIA
Peace has never been conceived of as a primordial condition. Western political tradition has always viewed it as an exception to be achieved, a fragile interlude between wars, a state that must be defended by force precisely because it contradicts the nature of things.But what if peace were not an exception but rather a description — not an ideal to be imposed on the world, but the name we give to what is already happening when cultures intermingle and can no longer be separated? Perhaps peace is not the absence of conflict, but the now-established impossibility of returning to a pure identity worth fighting for.
Peace can no longer be conceived as the mere suspension of conflict between clearly bounded worlds. It must be understood as a condition that emerges within entanglement itself: not the silence of separated identities, but the unstable equilibrium of what has…