Marcia Pally
Eat and Die. Friss oder Stirb. Infants in the Field of War, 2013
Brussels: Bartleby & Co.
One of thirty copies. Signed by the publisher, Thorsten Baensch.
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Quarto. (22)ff + (16)ff booklet bound in at centerfold. Photomontages and other digitally rendered design elements portray with alienating sterility twenty-three food items from the U.S. Army during the Iraq...
Quarto. (22)ff + (16)ff booklet bound in at centerfold. Photomontages and other digitally rendered design elements portray with alienating sterility twenty-three food items from the U.S. Army during the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. The list is bleak, and includes shelf-stable bread, instant apple drink mix, cream substitute, and matches. Commentary on each article is bureaucratic in tone, its medical and nutritional information clearly insinuating the soldier's value as a functional, mechanical instrument. Marcia Pally's brief article outlines the methods the U.S. government used to spend as little money on its own troops as possible throughout the invasions, and how whatever money was spent went to private corporations like Halliburton and funded the construction of Guantanamo Bay. Bound in navy wrappers with yellow titling laid on. Fine.
