Slow Disturbance

Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: First Fish, Then Mediation  1The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959  281. The Plant  45Slow Disturbance, "5 Canada"  782. Credit and Common Sense  79The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011  1113. Meta Incognita  120Slow Disturbance, "Channel 12"  1504. The Promise of Extraction  153Slow Disturbance, "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism"  174The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997  176Notes  181Bibliography  203Index  217

“At this moment of reckoning, where histories of colonial violence and their afterlives in economies of extractivism are at the center of struggle, Slow Disturbance offers a powerful and nuanced account of the infrastructural making of the resource frontier. A must-read for those invested in understanding and transforming settler colonial materialities and ecologies.” - Deborah Cowen, author of (The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade) “Rafico Ruiz makes a critical contribution to media studies, settler colonial studies, and studies of infrastructure and the environment. A fantastic book.” - Nicole Starosielski, author of (The Undersea Network) "Slow Disturbance is a valuable and much-needed text that provides thoughtful insights into the ways that resource frontiers are made and enacted through small and slow efforts to sustain settler lives. Ruiz brings a critical eye to the ways that media multiply functions in these colonial projects, opening up space for new approaches to reading colonial archives in relation to their material environments." - Cameron Butler (Public)