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| Program > Environmental Epistemology |
| Programme > Épistémologie de l'environnement |
| Edward
Jones-Imhotep (York
University) Knowing the North: Meteorological Instruments and Malevolent Nature |
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paper explores how understandings of the Canadian northern environment
and its effects on both humans and instruments in the late 1940s and
early 1950s called into question the ability of scientific workers to
capture the North graphically and epistemically after the Second World
War. It employs an expanded notion of "environment" - one
rooted in climate and ecology, but also in magnetic storms,
atmospheric disturbances, and solar prominences - to illuminate the
role of machines in mediating the tension between unreliable
witnesses, a malevolent North, and its articulation through scientific
images.
York
University
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