Canada under the DEWline
The Distant Early Warning Line (DEWline) marks the intersection of military-technological and cultural discourses. It was both a radar system and a conceptual way-station in the fraught history of Canada’s Arctic, a punctuation point between the utopian socialism of F.R. Scott’s “Laurentian Shield,...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs.51.1.112 2023-12-31T10:03:50+01:00 Canada under the DEWline Campbell, Rebecca 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.51.1.112 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.51.1.112 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 51, issue 1, page 112-133 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2017 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.51.1.112 2023-12-01T08:18:20Z The Distant Early Warning Line (DEWline) marks the intersection of military-technological and cultural discourses. It was both a radar system and a conceptual way-station in the fraught history of Canada’s Arctic, a punctuation point between the utopian socialism of F.R. Scott’s “Laurentian Shield, the “near-future warnings” of Marshall McLuhan, and the ecological anxiety of our contemporary North. Further, the DEWline exists at the intersection of national, civilian space—it is, after all, designed for defence—and the totalities of the Cold War. As such, the DEWline is productive, challenging, and elusive. It is a measure of both weaponized information and nuclear anxiety, as well as a literal contact zone between what Rachel Woodward calls militarism’s “moral order” and the cultural work of a critic like McLuhan or a poet like Scott. It is also one way in which civilians can understand how militarism’s discourses and epistemologies construct landscapes and subjects far beyond the range of its radar. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 51 1 112 133 |
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The Distant Early Warning Line (DEWline) marks the intersection of military-technological and cultural discourses. It was both a radar system and a conceptual way-station in the fraught history of Canada’s Arctic, a punctuation point between the utopian socialism of F.R. Scott’s “Laurentian Shield, the “near-future warnings” of Marshall McLuhan, and the ecological anxiety of our contemporary North. Further, the DEWline exists at the intersection of national, civilian space—it is, after all, designed for defence—and the totalities of the Cold War. As such, the DEWline is productive, challenging, and elusive. It is a measure of both weaponized information and nuclear anxiety, as well as a literal contact zone between what Rachel Woodward calls militarism’s “moral order” and the cultural work of a critic like McLuhan or a poet like Scott. It is also one way in which civilians can understand how militarism’s discourses and epistemologies construct landscapes and subjects far beyond the range of its radar. |
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