The war and the peace
BY: Giorgio Agamben* Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - It is necessary to take seriously the thesis, repeated several times by governments, according to which humanity and every country are currently in a state of war. It is understood that such a thesis serves to legitimize the state of exception with its drastic limitations on freedom of movement and absurd expressions such as “curfew”, otherwise difficult to justify. The bond between the powers of government and the war is, however, more intimate and consubstantial. The fact is that war is something they cannot in any way permanently do without. In…