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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 9/11 attacks in 2001 and the withdrawal… 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 9/11 attacks in 2001 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 dizzying edifice of power, Clark and Black adopt the form of the printed encyclopedia. Today often considered obsolete, it has served humanity for centuries in describing the nearly indecipherable complexity of the world surrounding it. Drawing from the Department of Defense's 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.