The State, the Territory, the Colonized

The territory is the place of a political category of sovereignty, the definition of a specific and cultural legitimacy that can become a memory of history itself. It is a representation that disappears with man himself or with the very men who had maintained it, but which – and this is precisely where that specific force of change lies – lives again as a necessity of law and politics, which have their roots in the possibility of representing themselves as sovereigns. The risk of a return of imperialism in different forms, such as those of the great international organizations, remains ever closer.