ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on critical philosophical and artistic perspectives that illuminate the ways in which contemporary warfare's presence in space-body relationships and to the relevance of Arendts observation that events have clearly exploded our categories of political thought and our standards for moral judgment. Encouraged to analyze the blurred boundary between the war and home fronts after thinking critically about political topologies in response to my early experiences and also to Jean Baudrillard's famous argument that the Gulf War didnt take place, author turned to an inter-articulation between theoretical and artistic texts in order to address the various ways that war is and will have been present in the home. Certainly Baudrillard's argument has to provoke reflection on the spatio-temporality of presence in general and specifically on the spatio-temporality of the presence of war. A common measure is also the result of the symbolic montage that Annie Proulx's Tits-Up in Ditch effects.
