ABSTRACT
Postmodern war seems to be coming to an end yet to be determined. Currently, war’s prospects oscillate between two very different poles: some form of horrific apocalypse or the even less likely possibility of general disarmament and peace. 1 A dynamic fluctuation between them might mean a limited nuclear war or biological attack, with deaths in the millions, that would precipitate a general reevaluation of political realities. Without that “shock treatment” scenario we can expect a low level of continual horrors leading (at best) gradually to the kind of fundamental changes necessary for humanity to survive. It is almost a choice between a postwar world and a postcivilization one. However the conversation, the discourse of postmodern war goes, we will all have some say.
