Rafico Ruiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafico Ruiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafico |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruiz |
| SIGNATURE | RUIZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canadian Centre for Architecture |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9055-1660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
After Ice
As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investiga…
Preamble
This article introduces ‘sensing elementality’ as an analytic orientation meant to evoke the overlapping potentials of eco-critique and experimental thinking. We highlight the importance of sensing and elementality both as theoretical frameworks and emerging debates within a number of academic fields, including geography, media studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Finally, we overview some of the contributions of the articles featur…
Reservoirs
Emerging out of a discussion of reservoirs at a workshop on ‘2020 studies’ hosted by the editors of History + Technology, this special issue seeks to generate a lively, interdisciplinary, and cross-cutting discussion on the ways in which thinking about reservoirs might animate analyses on a variety of topics, including but not limited to disease, disability, climate change, ecosystems, the built environment, finance, computing networks, social fo…
The balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
The Greenlandic ice sheet, made out through the relationships built up between it and the remote hydroelectric station Buksefjord, is an environmental phenomenon that under the conditions created by global warming is becoming a planetary reservoir of a number of states and materials: water, ice, sea level rise, melting ice, hydropower. My aim is to understand the Greenlandic ice sheet as a reservoir not just of melting ice and, by extension a sou…
The Qaggiq Model
Review of: The Qaggiq Model: Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal , Janet Tamalik McGrath (2019) Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, 410 pp., ISBN 978-1-897568-58-3, p/bk, $29.95 The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration , Hester Blum (2019) Durham: Duke University Press, 328pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-387-8, p/bk, $27.95
Saturation
Materials and Media of Infrastructure
Special Issue
Mediating the Tree
Background: Through a close reading of the four issues of The Bowater Papers, this article aims to understand the rise of a paper modernity and to reinsert it—as material and infrastructure—into media studies. Analysis: Producing wood paper is a strain on the landscape and the environment. The Bowater Papers showcases the histories and material possibilities of paper media products. A paper-dependent modernity can be understood as an infrastructu…
Special Issue
Media infrastructure
The Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador operated on the North Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Founded by Dr Wilfred Grenfell, an evangelical Protestant medical missionary, the Mission sought to come to the aid of the settler ‘fisherfolk’ of the colony of Newfoundland. From the late 1890s up until his death in 1940, Grenfell would undertake nearly annual illustrated lecture tours to publicize the work of the Missi…
The Ocean Ranger
U nlike many so-called "isolated" marine disasters, whether the loss of a ship or the material effect of a storm battering the shore, the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oilrig was a continuous event.In the months that followed, as the mainstream news media's constant tracking of the situation quite literally showed its underwater reality, oil from the Macondo well flowed for months into the Gulf of Mexico off the shores of Louisiana.The legal, …
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The Ocean Ranger
U nlike many so-called "isolated" marine disasters, whether the loss of a ship or the material effect of a storm battering the shore, the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oilrig was a continuous event.In the months that followed, as the mainstream news media's constant tracking of the situation quite literally showed its underwater reality, oil from the Macondo well flowed for months into the Gulf of Mexico off the shores of Louisiana.The legal, …
Media infrastructure
The Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador operated on the North Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Founded by Dr Wilfred Grenfell, an evangelical Protestant medical missionary, the Mission sought to come to the aid of the settler ‘fisherfolk’ of the colony of Newfoundland. From the late 1890s up until his death in 1940, Grenfell would undertake nearly annual illustrated lecture tours to publicize the work of the Missi…
Special Issue
The Qaggiq Model
Review of: The Qaggiq Model: Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal , Janet Tamalik McGrath (2019) Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, 410 pp., ISBN 978-1-897568-58-3, p/bk, $29.95 The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration , Hester Blum (2019) Durham: Duke University Press, 328pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-387-8, p/bk, $27.95
Saturation
Materials and Media of Infrastructure
Special Issue
Mediating the Tree
Background: Through a close reading of the four issues of The Bowater Papers, this article aims to understand the rise of a paper modernity and to reinsert it—as material and infrastructure—into media studies. Analysis: Producing wood paper is a strain on the landscape and the environment. The Bowater Papers showcases the histories and material possibilities of paper media products. A paper-dependent modernity can be understood as an infrastructu…
After Ice
As the climate warms and the hydrological cycle falters, ice is no longer a reliable feature of higher latitudes or winter seasons. What are the consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes after ice? This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. After Ice gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investiga…
Preamble
This article introduces ‘sensing elementality’ as an analytic orientation meant to evoke the overlapping potentials of eco-critique and experimental thinking. We highlight the importance of sensing and elementality both as theoretical frameworks and emerging debates within a number of academic fields, including geography, media studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Finally, we overview some of the contributions of the articles featur…
Reservoirs
Emerging out of a discussion of reservoirs at a workshop on ‘2020 studies’ hosted by the editors of History + Technology, this special issue seeks to generate a lively, interdisciplinary, and cross-cutting discussion on the ways in which thinking about reservoirs might animate analyses on a variety of topics, including but not limited to disease, disability, climate change, ecosystems, the built environment, finance, computing networks, social fo…
The balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
The Greenlandic ice sheet, made out through the relationships built up between it and the remote hydroelectric station Buksefjord, is an environmental phenomenon that under the conditions created by global warming is becoming a planetary reservoir of a number of states and materials: water, ice, sea level rise, melting ice, hydropower. My aim is to understand the Greenlandic ice sheet as a reservoir not just of melting ice and, by extension a sou…
Sociology (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)