The Highway of the Atom

Table of Contents

• Contents 8
• Images 12
• Acknowledgments 14
• 1 18
• 1.01 Field Note: Great Bear Lake – 30 July 2003 20
• 1.02 Archive 23
• 1.03 Tracking Stories 25
• 1.04 History 29
• 1.05 Writing 34
• 1.06 Map 35
• 1.07 Theory 39
• 1.08 Field Note: Apology – November 2002 41
• 1.09 The Route 42
• 1.10 A Gentle Compulsiveness 50
• 1.11 Material 52
• 1.12 Village of Widows 55
• 2 60
• 2.01 Punctum 62
• 2.02 Rice Christians – Who knew? 67
• 2.03 Cargo Cult 68
• 2.04 Magic 69
• 2.05 Field Note: Two Contrasting Figures – May 2003 71
• 2.06 Field Note: Tulita – 6 August 2003 75
• 2.07 The Idea of North 78
• 2.08 Naming 82
• 2.09 Field Note: Yellowknife, Explorer Hotel – August 2003 86
• 2.10 Field Note: Northern Metaphor – Norway Point, February 2005 88
• 2.11 Field Note: Landscape – Yellowknife, August 2007 90
• 2.12 Field Note: Tigullapaa – Nuuk, Greenland, 25 August 2008 92
• 2.13 Field Note: Norway Point – April 2009 93
• 2.14 Abduction 95
• 2.15 Birth Order 99
• 2.16 Vision 100
• 2.17 Meanwhile 102
• 2.18 Radium 104
• 2.19 Sum and Remainder 110
• 3 112
• 3.01 Finding Aids 114
• 3.02 Field Note: Cobalt-Bloom and Copper-Green – Echo Bay, 2003 118
• 3.03 Pitchblende 121
• 3.04 Congo 128
• 3.05 White Myth 130
• 3.06 Oh Canada – More Silence 133
• 3.07 Field Note: Cameron Bay – August 2003 136
• 3.08 Field Note: Bewilderment – Déline, 2003 140
• 3.09 Field Note: Grey Goose Inn, Déline – 25 July 2003 145
• 3.10 Field Note: Arctic Circle (66° 32') – 1 August 2005 148
• 3.11 Chorography 152
• 3.12 Field Note: Port Radium – 30 July 2003 155
• 3.13 Field Note: Déline – August 2003 160
• 4 164
• 4.01 The Stones Are Speaking Now 166
• 4.02 Phantoms 170
• 4.03 Alibi 172
• 4.04 Lieux de Mémoire: A Mnemonics of Catastrophe 174
• 4.05 Abduction and the Accident 177
• 4.06 Shipwreck with Raven 178
• 4.07 Field Note: New Mexico – February 2004 180
• 4.08 From Figure to Metaphor 182
• 4.09 Spectator 184
• 4.10 Ecology 190
• 4.11 Story 194
• 4.12 Erasure, Redux 199
• 4.13 Equivalence 203
• 4.14 Field Note: Black River – 3 August 2005 206
• 4.15 Field Note: Mackenzie River – 3 August 2005 209
• 4.16 Field Notes in the Margins 215
• 4.17 Field Note: Tulita (Fort Norman) – 6 August 2005 217
• 4.18 Field Note: Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River) – 6 August 2005 219
• 4.19 Problems 221
• 4.20 Field Note: (The Gift) Déline – February 2003 222
• Notes to part 1 235
• Notes to part 2 231
• Notes to part 3 237
• Notes to part 4 242
• Bibliography 252
• Image credits 274
• Index 276
• A 276
• B 276
• C 277
• D 278
• E 279
• F 279
• G 280
• H 280
• I 281
• J 281
• K 282
• L 282
• M 282
• N 283
• O 284
• P 284
• Q 285
• R 285
• S 286
• T 287
• U 288
• V 288
• W 288
• Y 288
• Z 288