Object Politics

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The sixth issue of The Funambulist Magazine about “Object Politics,” similarly to its third issue (January-February 2016), dedicated to “Clothing Politics,” is dedicated to a scale of design that, sometimes, goes unnoticed in the examination of this relation: the scale of objects. Our bodies are surrounded by them, wear them, use them, and eat them. They are all precisely designed, and are involved in complex manufacturing systems, yet we often fail to address the political intensity of our interaction with them.

Editor-in-Chief: Léopold Lambert

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Past Issues

The Desert

Continental lives and Anti-Colonial Struggles in the Arid, Plentiful Lands of the Sahara, the Atacama, the Gibson, the Kgalagadi, the Dhofar, and the Taklimakan deserts

Diasporas

Political Imaginaries of Afro-Diasporic, Indentured, Exiled, and Landless Communities. Narratives from the Cape Verdean, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Jewish, Eelam Tamil, Chinese, and the Black Atlantic diasporas.

Algerian Independence and Global Revolution 1962-2022

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Algerian Revolution and its internationalist solidarity with the Non-Aligned Movement, the liberation struggles on the African Continent, Ireland, Palestine, and Yugoslavia.

Decentering the U.S.

Thinking pluriversally through Blackness, queerness, brownness, caste & indigeneity from other geographies than the United States.

The Land... From Settler Colonial Property to LANDBACK

Understanding settler colonial land dispossession, extractivism, and property and envisioning LANDBACK in South Africa, Ecuador, Turtle Island, Palestine, Alaska, Australia, Kenya, the Caribbean, and Chile.

The Ocean... From the Black Atlantic to the Sea of Islands

A Political History of the Ocean about the legacy of the Middle Passage, Black Internationalism, the fight against nuclear colonialism, and feminisms in Oceania, and poetic perspectives on the "Indian" Ocean from Zanzibar and Eelam.