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The editorial line of The Funambulist owes a lot to the work that Eyal Weizman has been undertaking since 2003 in the novel approach to architecture that it has been allowing through books such as Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (2007), The Least of All Possible Evils (2011) or The Conflict Shoreline (2015, in...

There are places in Palestine where the various territorial and architectural means implementing the Israeli apartheid concentrate on a relatively small territory (in Hebron or Qalqiliya for instance). A few kilometers north of Jerusalem, beyond the Green Line, one can find such a territory. Between the Palestinian towns of Biddu and Al Jib, both surrounded...

* The title is taken from China Mieville seminal book by the same name. China Mieville speaks of a city though located in the same physical space coming to function as two cities. Taking an allegorical stance towards ideas of segregation, policing, and separations between people, who though cohabit the same place, live in different...

In the West Bank, between Ramallah and Nablus, air-conditioned tour busses carry groups of American investors up and down a winding, unpaved road to view the birth of a new Palestinian suburban town called Rawabi. This master-planned town, they are told, represents the promise of a new Palestine. As an editorial in Israel’s largest-circulation newspaper...

Lahore today looks like a city at war. One of the greatest unacknowledged casualties of the United States’ “war on terror” has been the cities (and citizenry) of Pakistan. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban from power in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. In 1985, sixteen...

“Only by stopping the movement of the earth — vertically through space, horizontally across time — can you enter the ‘once-and-for-all’ and take possession. Of land, of others, of yourself. Blind credence. The fantasy on which state and nationhood rely.” In States of Fantasy (Clarendon, 1998), Jacqueline Rose examines the psychic preconditions for modern statehood,...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on September 13, 2016 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! On September 9, 2016, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video in which he affirms that the evacuation of the Israeli civil settlements in the West Bank in the context of the creation...

On May 19-21 2016, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin hosted a 36-hour long conference entitled “Public Space: Fights and Fictions: a 36-hour Factory of Thought,” dedicated the politics of public space, organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. The numerous keynote lectures, roundtables and performances involved the participation of many architects, urban planners, artists, journalists, and other thinkers from both...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on August 25, 2016 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! On August 12, 2015, 2,500 refugees, mostly Syrians and Afghanis, are kept prisoners for 24 hours in a stadium of Kos, a Greek island situated only a few kilometers from the Turkish coasts. They...