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Edmund Clark and Crofton Black. Cosmopolemos
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Open in the appCosmopolemos /koz-mə-pol'e-mos/ noun The ordered universe of war From Greek kósmos (order, universe) and pólemos (war, personification of war) The United States alone accounts for 40% of global military spending. In the period between the 11 September 2001 attacks and the… Cosmopolemos /koz-mə-pol'e-mos/ noun The ordered universe of war From Greek kósmos (order, universe) and pólemos (war, personification of war) The United States alone accounts for 40% of global military spending. In the period between the 11 September 2001 attacks and the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Department of Defense entered into contracts totalling 6,500 billion dollars, representing more than 43 million transactions. They range from oil reserves and nuclear weapons to cookies and cleaning services. This data is not secret, but its scale and complexity make it difficult to understand. To account for this dizzying edifice of power, Clark and Black adopt the form of the printed encyclopedia. Today often considered obsolete, it has for centuries served humanity in describing the almost indecipherable complexity of the world around it. Using photographs from the Department of Defense galleries and words from their captions or descriptions of transactions, Clark and Black construct an encyclopedic analysis of the commercial relationships that underpin the hegemony of the world's leading superpower.