Title & Author:

Distant early warning systems : from the Cold War to the cosmos / edited by Julie Decker.

Publication:

Anchorage, Alaska : Anchorage Museum ; Munich : Hirmer, [2025]
©2025

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Distant early warning systems : an introduction / Julie Decker -- Building the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line : a Cold War transformation of the Arctic / Ian Hartman -- The Distant Early Warning Project / Charles Stankievech -- The DEW Line's effects upon northern Canada / David Neufeld -- Doomday's tripwire : the DEW Line / Mark Wolverton -- Deep signals : the silent messages overhead / Zachariah Hughes -- Atomic island / Ben Huff -- The base / Priscilla Naunġaġiaq Hensley -- Scattered connectivity, native specialists, and wartime debris / Holly Miowak Guise, Ph.D. -- Labors of Hercules (from Nuking Alaska) / Peter Dunlap-Shohl -- Radar returns to the Arctic / Mia Bennett -- White Alice White Alice White Alice White Alice White Alice / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- White Alice goes to hell / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- White Alice changes / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- The DEW Line and climate change / Chad Briggs -- Bulletin of the atomic scientists : data visualizations offer a detailed look / Giorgia Lupi, Pentagram -- Military modernization and Inuit : anthropologist J.D. Ferguson and the DEW Line in the western Canadian Arctic / P. Whitney Lackenbauer -- Light bulbs and vacuum cleaners herald a new age of espionage / Davey Winder -- Stories from the future : life on the Red Planet / Mars City Design -- Entangled Arctic : home/land in the house/territory / Lola Sheppard & Mason White -- McLuhan on the DEW Line / Andrew McLuhan -- Art of Cold War, climate, and cosmos / Julie Decker -- Cold War backdrop / Brian Adams.

Exhibitions:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, April 4, 2025 - September 7, 2026.

Summary:

"Today, the Arctic is seen as a place primed for data storage and vaults - doomsday structures with a utilitarian vernacular of architecture, protecting the "knowledge" of places further south rather than recognising the local presence and expertise of place and Indigenous lifeways and Indigenous science. This book looks at the role of artists as early warning systems and explores the ways we connect and disconnect place and people through technology and the ideas of boundaries. With the DEW Line as a framework, Julie Decker examines ideologies of warning. The DEW Line is a symbol of both past and future. Today, we think about planetary boundaries, the boundaries of survival and other human limits"--Publisher website.

ISBN:

9783777443195 hardbound
3777443190

Subject:

DEW Line Exhibitions.
Art Political aspects.
Ballistic missile early warning system Exhibitions.
Radar defense networks Exhibitions.
Ballistic missile early warning system.
Atomic bomb in art.
Radar defense networks.
Système de détection lointaine des missiles balistiques Expositions.
Réseaux radars d'alerte Expositions.
Système de détection lointaine des missiles balistiques.
Bombe atomique dans l'art.
Réseaux radars d'alerte.

Added entries:

Decker, Julie, contributor, editor.
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321903
Call No.: 321903
Copy: 1
Status: Available