Dog Tags

\*The tags are not in opposition to soldier’s tags. They are not locked into that

contrast, it’s merely one posture. One constellation to illuminate another aspect. No

disrespect intended to soldiers. They get to make whatever meaning out of their

tags and their own experience. But the system, tags in the assembly line of the

military apparatus. Yes, it’s war.


Soldiers go off to fight distant wars and wear tags worn for essentially one reason,

so that their bodies can be identified if they are found dead. These tags indicate that

death is the corollary of war; there is no war without death much like there is no

money without debt; but the implication of my tags for the war they represent is not

death but transgression, and the beginning transcendence. It is a war that starts

within.


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