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This article reviews Rafico Ruiz’s Slow Disturbance , which presents a strong analysis of the temporal dimensions of infrastructure and the resource frontier through the case of the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, an evangelical Protestant medical mission. Ruiz highlights infrastructure as ongoing relational processes that are also media productions and is especially attuned to how relationships are oriented around the repair and maintenance of infrastructure in order to create the resource frontier.