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Thursday, February 24, 2022
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Slow Disturbance: Infrastructure and Ice
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Rafico Ruiz
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Main entrance of Buksefjord hydroelectric plant. Kangersunlunguat Fjord, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), June, 2017. Photograph by Rafico Ruiz.
In this talk Rafico Ruiz will share his work on "slow disturbance" as a research method that can capture the lasting effects of settler colonialism on land and the built environment. He will also make connections to his current book project on post-global warming ice and the creation of a 'drift path theory' to apprehend environmental phenomena through their dissolution.
The talk will be presented via Zoom. Registration is required.
About the speaker
Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (DUP, 2021), and the co-editor, with Melody Jue, of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (DUP, 2021). He is completing a manuscript, Phase State Earth: The End Media of Ice, on the disrupted phase transitions of ice under the conditions of global warming.