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Starting from image analysis and the “before” and “after” diptych, Hannah Meszaros Martin provides us with a political understanding of the military use of glyphosate against various forests of the world. She turns in particular to the chemical “act of killing” against coca plants in the context of the so-called “War on drugs” in Colombia...

October 6, 2020 /// This Monday, Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay was kicking off the stellar lecture series Algerian architect and architectural historian Samia Henni has put together for the department of architecture at Cornell University in the United States. Entitled “Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity,” this lecture series features a list of...

In the first of two introductions to this issue, Léopold Lambert explains the editorial intentions behind its title, as well as the genesis of the collaborative work that constructed the conversations between guest/organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature and Palestinian thinkers. Welcome to our 27th issue. Originally, the title we had chosen for it...

This conversation between researcher Madiha Tahir and system-design engineer Majd Al-shihabi is the continuation of one started in Beirut after PalFest 2019. They discuss the way data and digital instruments are used by the state and by activists in Pashtun tribal areas administered by Pakistan and Palestine. MADIHA TAHIR: What is the relationship between data,...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 2, 2019 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Above is a comparison of the current state of the Israeli apartheid in Palestine with its permanent form that the so-called “Kushner Plan” (from the name of the current U.S. President’s son in law),...

“You have here the presidents of institutions that do not recognize each other […]. Each and every one denied the existence of the institutions that the others represented and their legitimacy. That is the difficulty of Libya’s current situation.” (“Libyan Factions Agree to Elections Despite Deep Divisions,” New York Times, May 29, 2018, quoting French...

The New Silk Road exists in many forms, its layers slowly updated through software and hard concrete. In 2012, Hewlett-Packard negotiated the construction of an alternate rail route “defined not only according to business logic, but also with certain strategic calculation.” (“Battle of the Silk Road: Kazakhstan reformats the map of Eurasia Logistics,” 2017). Faster...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on November 10, 2017 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! The New York Times’ radical reasonableness offers us a clear vision of the ways one can continuously adapt its position to the political context as to be in position of respectful negotiation with the status...

Welcome to the eleventh issue of The Funambulist Magazine, which can be read as the third installment of a trilogy about the territorialities and architectures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Issue 9 took us through indigenous, migrant, and demilitarization struggles in small islands around the world. Issue 10 examined colonialism as a process rather than an...