Rich from Rubble & Ruin: An Ethnographic Diary of Military-Industrial (Man)Power
Nina Croft
"Mary Douglas says dirt is matter out of place and I am dirt among the makers of war and wealth, and they are dirt inside my veins. I have become Data. Collect me!”
Introduction written by Fabrizio Previti
Researcher Nina Croft infiltrates Europe’s largest arms fair to trace—through lyric reportage—how the weapons market scripts bodies and the business of war.
Intimate, somatic, politically sharp. Moving between police lines, sales booths, and protest camps, she maps a porous boundary where war-making psychologically detaches people from what these tools really are, opening a wide rift between reality and play. Pinkwashed prototypes and orchestral pageantry collide with fear, desire, and numbness; her countdown diary asks how the monopoly on legitimate violence is engineered—and what remains when the fair ends: an endemic sense of despair.