Against the war culture or against the culture war?

Abstract

In this text, the concept of total war will be examined through a concrete case—the civic-military schools—as a proposition of a permanent, ordinary state of war embedded in the daily life of civil society. Freud's assertion that what works in favor of culture works against war, an assertion that establishes a dialectical opposition between war and culture, enabled an analysis of how the civic-military school project implies a certain rupture with this dialectic. This rupture undermines the cultural path as a means of addressing the structural violence inherent to humanity, favoring instead a proposal of disciplinary control.