Introduction

On 24 February 2022, after two years of the pandemic, Russia invaded Ukraine. It began a war that still has not ended, and many of its edges are shaking the planet: the form of the War, the modification of the bidding of the great powers, the evident transformation of energy supplies, especially in Europe and inflation on a global scale, among others.

In this context, I want to present here one of the most outstanding impacts of the War in the first part of 2022, the second year of the second decade of the beginning of the twenty-first century: the definitive ‘presentation in society’ of what we are going to call trans-globalisation.

From Montesquieu through Lenin and arriving at Wallerstein, there have been numerous approaches to a central idea to understand the world as we knew it until this century, the one referring to the fact that we live on a common planet and that the social systems we build are interconnected. All these explanations take up the fact of interdependence, the processes of connectivity and the expansion of a ‘common morality’.

In the last two decades of the last century, a set of proposals were developed to understand what began to be called globalisation, ‘worldarisation’ or planetarisación.

Perhaps one of the most cited has been the proposal of Manuel Castells in his work ‘The Information Age’ (1996) in three volumes that begins in his prologue as follows:

Information technologies, the rhythm of change and the equation economy, state and society are perceived as the key components of modifying the planetary scale.

Another look at globalisation was provided by Alberto Melucci, who, within the framework of his vision of complex societies, identity modifications and collective actions, maintained the existence of the structuring of a planetary society.