ESSAY text by EMANUELE COCCIA artwork by CYPRIEN GAILLARD the renowned italian philosopher emanuele coccia is a regular contributor to purple. We’ve lost our history.We’ve lost our planet. We don’t have time anymore. We won’t have space anymore. For this very reason, we are pure future. We’ve lost every kind of identity. That’s why we are a future that exists beyond time, beyond technological progress, and beyond the identity of any species. We cannot imagine our future starting from a shared past. The past is no longer available. It is not so much or not only for political reasons: it is not because the joyful memory of some coincides with the tragedy of others. It is not even because it is difficult to reconcile memory or to build a common memory. Memory — the history of events and the heritage of knowledge — is useless because it refers to a…