Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (Duke 2021), and co-editor (with Melody Jue) of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke 2021). His articles have appeared in Continuum, Communication+1, Resilience, and TOPIA.