The Unreliable Nation

Released on by Edward Jones-Imhotep
preview-18

  • The Unreliable Nation Book Detail

  • Author : Edward Jones-Imhotep
  • Release Date : 2017-07-28
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 307
  • ISBN 13 : 0262036517
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Unreliable Nation by Edward Jones-Imhotep PDF Summary

Book Description: An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not through the triumph of machines over nature, but through technological failures and the distinctive natural orders that caused them. In The Unreliable Nation, Edward Jones-Imhotep examines one instance in this larger history: the Cold War–era project to extend reliable radio communications to the remote and strategically sensitive Canadian North. He argues that, particularly at moments when countries viewed themselves as marginal or threatened, the identity of the modern nation emerged as a scientifically articulated relationship between distinctive natural phenomena and the problematic behaviors of complex groups of machines. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents and recently declassified materials, Jones-Imhotep shows how Canadian defense scientists elaborated a distinctive “Northern” natural order of violent ionospheric storms and auroral displays, and linked it to a “machinic order” of severe and widespread radio disruptions throughout the country. Tracking their efforts through scientific images, experimental satellites, clandestine maps, and machine architectures, he argues that these scientists naturalized Canada's technological vulnerabilities as part of a program to reimagine the postwar nation. The real and potential failures of machines came to define Canada, its hostile Northern nature, its cultural anxieties, and its geo-political vulnerabilities during the early Cold War. Jones-Imhotep's study illustrates the surprising role of technological failures in shaping contemporary understandings of both nature and nation.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Unreliable Nation books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Unreliable Nation

The Unreliable Nation

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 2769 Views
DOWNLOAD

An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves t

Made Modern

Made Modern

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 9840 Views
DOWNLOAD

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living

Making Things and Drawing Boundaries

Making Things and Drawing Boundaries

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 4157 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as ne

Seeing the Past with Computers

Seeing the Past with Computers

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 3500 Views
DOWNLOAD

Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based a

Genetic Crossroads

Genetic Crossroads

File Size : 14,14 MB
Total View : 7712 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided wi