THE PHENOMENON OF WAR: MATERIALISTIC PHENOMENOLOGY POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

The article is devoted to the postphenomenological approach to the study of war as primarily a world phenomenon, anthropological patterns and moral and legal codes. The foundations of the proposed materialistіс phenomenology have three main points. First, existential topography acts as a leading descriptive method which is based on the triple unity of spatiality, bodility and otherness. Secondly, the visibility of the phenomenon is captured by its imagery, which has three situational aspects – givenness, performance practices, marking contours. Thirdly, phenomenality has two asymmetrically connected sides – available, which ensures meeting and assimilation in the approach, and the reverse, which marks the contours of the visible in the invisibility of the distant. The materialistic character of phenomenology means that the emphasis is on the world as an existential media that has its own bodily organized agent network. The description of the war phenomenon offered in this article stops only at the first step – the discovery of givens to testify to a phenomenological point of view, but with the prospect of further description. War manifests itself as a deforming topos compression that leads to bodily practices of concealment. Deformation is the result of homogenizing control over the topos diversity of existence through the invasion of radical otherness that carried out by the artificial corporeality of weapons and the dominant corporeality of the military. In a situation of war, otherness, instead of receding into the invisible, which ensures the absolute difference of the world order, turns into a positive approximation of indistinction, monstrosity. The world stops reporting on the order of life.