My research project entitled” Snapshots of disciplinary monotony”, was written after my dismissal from the Greek Army, where i served from 10 May 2010 to January 10, 2011. However, while I was writing this paper, i had several times to return into my notebooks that i was carrying into my pockets of the military uniform to recall the representations of my experiences during my tenure as the Engineering Sector. I realized that the spontaneous and the automatic way that i was perceiving  and writing things, acted as a form of exorcism of contradictory irrational excesses of everyday life.

The aim of the project is to talk about the disciplinary mechanisms of the army, through adjustments of posture, language and daily routine of soldiers, and seeing the term through an anthropological perspective. In other words to redact an accurate but, obviously, not exhaustive, anthropology of the absurd.

In this way of understanding my personal experience led me to the point, through the apocalyptic Foucault’s vision and complementary sociological bibliography as well as representations of military culture in art and literature in particular...