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Edmund Clark et 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 September 11, 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 September 11, 2001 attacks and the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Department of Defense awarded contracts totaling 6,500 billion dollars, representing more than 43 million transactions. They cover everything from oil reserves and nuclear weapons to cookies and cleaning services. These data are not secret, but their scale and complexity make them difficult to understand. To account for this vertiginous edifice of power, Clark and Black adopt the form of the printed encyclopedia. Often considered obsolete today, it has for centuries served humanity in describing the almost indecipherable complexity of the world around it. Drawing from the Department of Defense photograph galleries and words from their captions or transaction descriptions, Clark and Black construct an encyclopedic analysis of the commercial relationships that underpin the hegemony of the world's leading superpower.