The Funambulist now has 3,000 followers on facebook (as well as, 1,200 followers on wordpress and 1,700 on twitter)! Thank you very much for following the blog, as well as Archipelago its new podcast platform. The Funambulist started in January 2011, based on the archives of boiteaoutils and it has provided me since then with great encounters with talented people around the world. Thank you very much for being part of it.
I try to organize the archive of the blog as well as possible, but there are more than a thousand articles existing. Here is a small selection of one archived article by category written in the past four years (most of them can be found in the past and upcoming Funambulist Pamphlets published by Punctum Books):
– ARCHITECTURE: “Open-Letter to Mr. Patrik Schumacher: Yes, Architects Are Legitimized and Competent to Address the Political Debate” (February 2, 2012)
– POLITICS: “Violence on the Body: A Manual for the French Police Escorting Illegal Immigrants” (April 26, 2011)
– PHILOSOPHY: “Foucault and Architecture: The Encounter that Never Was” (October 17, 2012)
– WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE: “Weaponized Domestic Design” (June 6 , 2012)
– HISTORY: “Abject Matter: The Barricade and the Tunnel” (September 24, 2012)
– CINEMA: “Spike Lee’s Dolly Shot: The Inexorability of Immanence” (February 26, 2011)
– ART: “Unwalling Architecture with Gordon Matta Clark” (February 12, 2010)
– BODY: “The Hypochondriac Body” (May 25, 2013)
– LITERATURE: “The Kafkaian Immanent Labyrinth as a Postmortem Dream” (April 17, 2011)
– PALESTINE: “The Palestinian Archipelago: A Metaphorical Cartography of the Occupied Territories” (March 26, 2012)
– LAW: “Remus Has to Die” (March 6, 2013)
– PHOTOGRAPHY: “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar by Taryn Simon” (May 6, 2010)
– SCIENCE FICTION: “The Work of Philip K. Dick: Between Paranoia and Schizophrenia” (March 4, 2012)
– INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: “Life Saving Design: Mine Sweeper by Massoud Hassani” (October 22, 2011)
– INDIA: “Dabawalla” (March 26, 2009)
– OCCUPY WALL STREET: “The Spatial Issues at Stake with Occupy: Considering the Privately Owned Public Spaces” (October 20, 2011)
– CRUEL DESIGNS: “Handcuffs of the Future” (December 13, 2012)
– DRESSED BODIES: “Epidermalization of the Public Body: Archipelago with Mimi Thi Nguyen” (October 18, 2013)