Tracing poles and polarity back to their sacred ancient civilizations, this book explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes and nationalist ideologies, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich.
Introduction / Michael Bravo with Nicola Triscott -- Critical art and intervention in the technologies of the Arctic / Nicola Triscott -- Building autonomy through experiments in technology and skill / Michael Bravo -- Traveling through layers: Inuit artists appropriate new technologies / Katarina Soukup -- Trails and tales: multiple stories of human movement and modernity / David Turnbull -- Post-Cold War Arctic geopolitics: where are the people and the environment? / Lassi Heininen.