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What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?

New Discourses

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Who the Hell Cares?

Masculine and heroic rhetoric was so dominant that attempts to reframe discourses of Arctic work in the 1950s and 1960s had limited success. The Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson who extracts and studies high mountain ice course for example has been described as today's Indiana Jones. Popular accounts cast him regardless of his actual intentions as a pioneer explorer overcoming hardships while conducting fieldwork. Overcoming personal hardship is also at the center of the documentary film Chasing Ice 2012 by photographer James Balog.

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