28 years into apartheid and, crucially, more than three centuries into European settler colonialism at the southern tip of the African continent, thousands of Black African children and teenagers in Soweto, a township south of Johannesburg, initiated a movement. thefunambulist.net/shop/65-afte...

Amazing!!! Thank you @thefunambulist.bsky.social for showing love for the Wretched of the Earth. The most beautiful, revolutionary people of SOWETO

💥 Our new issue "Fifty Years After Soweto" (May–June 2026) is going to be out in almost two weeks from now! June 1976–2026: An anniversary issue on South(ern) African past, present, and future politics Cover photo by Peter Magubane. Preorder now! thefunambulist.net/shop/65-afte...

In this text, Ngọc Nâu begins with the rumors of her family’s land being reclaimed by the Vietnamese state to reflect on a history of state power reshaping Thái Nguyên through colonial extraction, socialist resettlement, and neoliberal industrialization. Each wave redistributes land, labor,

This text by Courage Dzidula Kpodo is based on his architecture thesis. It is centered on a five-acre land project he undertook in mountainous Ghana understood as a living record shaped by history, ecology, and collective labor.

In this text, Rusmailia Lenggogeni explores how the Minangkabau negotiate identity within a Java-centric Indonesian nation. Through adat, Islam, migration, and especially naming practices—from nature and Arabic to coded, Javanese-sounding forms—Minang names become tools of adaptation, resistance,

Thinking against State requires to consider some aspects that are less clear-cut than the repressive and/or neoliberal apparatuses—the most important of these aspects being public health. In post-revolution Cuba, bank headquarters are turned into hospitals and access to public health for all becomes

The current moment sees the French State trying to find a model that could reassert its settler colonial and military interests in Kanaky–New Caledonia after the massive revolt of May-June 2024. It was important for us to have a contribution about what a stateless liberated Kanaky could look like,

There is no border regime without a State, which is made particularly evident in settler colonial contexts. In what follows, Kai-rui Cheng examines the relationship between these two apparatuses in New Zealand (a term referring to the settler colonial State in this text), and draws from Māori

There is no border regime without a State, which is made particularly evident in settler colonial contexts. In what follows, Kai-rui Cheng examines the relationship between these two apparatuses in New Zealand (a term referring to the settler colonial State in this text), and draws from Māori

Coincidence? I think not. On the same day I read a reference to William C Anderson, whom I had not heard of before, in "Theory of Water", (by @biidaasamose.bsky.social )my first issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social in the mail had an article by him thefunambulist.net/magazine/the... #WeAreConnected

Historian & MiSC scholar Kaysha Corinealdi ( @kcorinealdi.bsky.social ) asks how this happened and why it fell into oblivion. Her answer in a recent @thefunambulist.bsky.social article cuts to the heart of how we choose what to forget, when we choose to remember, and what that costs us today.

A map of the Maya world oriented with east at the top, as is common in Maya geography. Illustration by Linda Quiquivix. "The partition established a relative peace between the invaders, who gazed at the Earth as if they were above in order to launch war on the land’s defenders down below."

In 2025, nine Western States formally recognized the State of Palestine. This State recognition and the resurrection of the moribund so-called “two-State solution” is combined with a criminalization of calls to liberate Palestine “from the river to the sea.” thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

A map of the Maya world oriented with east at the top, as is common in Maya geography. Illustration by Linda Quiquivix. "The partition established a relative peace between the invaders, who gazed at the Earth as if they were above in order to launch war on the land’s defenders down below."

In 2025, nine Western States formally recognized the State of Palestine. This State recognition and the resurrection of the moribund so-called “two-State solution” is combined with a criminalization of calls to liberate Palestine “from the river to the sea.” thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

Our new issue "The No-State Solution" (March–April 2026) is out now! thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

global sovereign, reducing nation-states to administrative units of territory on capital’s behalf." "Land defenders teach us it is as simple and as terrifying as the fact that capital is war, that capital can only achieve its objectives through war."

"Linda Quiquivix argues that global capital has replaced the nation-state as the true sovereign, waging a “Fourth World War” against land, life, and alternative models. Drawing on Zapatista Maya analysis, she exposes capital as a planetary system of domination and advocates for resistance

"Linda Quiquivix argues that global capital has replaced the nation-state as the true sovereign, waging a “Fourth World War” against land, life, and alternative models. Drawing on Zapatista Maya analysis, she exposes capital as a planetary system of domination and advocates for resistance

"Yet I fear that the devastating lack of attention and action from the “international community” has sparked a desperate desire in many of us to make ourselves and our history, cultures, knowledges, and accomplishments legible to the very same nation-States participating and enabling this genocide,

"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do." thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

"Part of the problem here is that so much of what we think we deserve is based on a sense of ownership, territorialization, and property that has nothing to do with defeating capitalism."

William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and

William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and

Our new issue "The No-State Solution" (March–April 2026) is out now! thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

Rasheedah Phillips's DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S CLOCK is on @thefunambulist.bsky.social's bookshelf at Wendy's Subway! An amazing collection you can go see in person in Brooklyn: wendyssubway.com/library/feat...

If you aren't familiar with @thefunambulist.bsky.social, go check them out! Their next issue, the No-State Solution, comes out next week. thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

The cover artwork titled 'Unfinished Fragments' was created by Palestinian geographer Samir Harb. The drawing purposely appears as incomplete to convey this sense of “no State,” a decentralized model where heterogeneous fragments exist alongside each other. thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...

There's too much history of 'it's not colonization/occupation/zionism when we do it' that's either horribly under-discussed or shockingly normalized. I'm still thinking about Paul Gilroy's “essential innocence” clouding people's awareness that their state-building dreams and reality are both deadly.

"The no-State solution is thus a provocation to think of what Indigenous sovereignty can look like without reproducing these structures, in particular the violent dichotomy of citizenship and its absence."

This is the question. Encouraged to see @williamcson.bsky.social here. 🔖

I wrote about the history of Black Zionism for @thefunambulist.bsky.social and the baffling ways that people use identity/oppression to justify genocidal and colonial state projects past and present. Marcus Garvey, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and much more offer disturbing warnings. Preorder if you can!

In 2025, nine Western States formally recognized the State of Palestine. This State recognition and the resurrection of the moribund so-called “two-State solution” is combined with a criminalization of calls to liberate Palestine “from the river to the sea.” thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

This research is part of our series of publications of architecture student theses. Adéla Vavříková describes the carceral continuum in Czechia, then in Czechoslovakia, during the Socialist Republic’s rule to the capitalist present, despite the turning point the 1989 Velvet Revolution embodied.

An important thread and article for the “It can’t happen here, it’s not legal” folks.

For this second opus of our “Learning With Our Elders” series, we are happy to present this account of a Eelam Tamil activist, Arivuchelvi (anonymized), who has been fighting the Sri Lankan state for the past 16 years to obtain truth and justice for her husband who has been forcefully disappeared

In this text inspired from her book 'Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century' (2022), Kaysha Corinealdi retraces the five years that led to 50,000 (mostly Black) Panamanians who were stripped of their citizenships in the 1940s.

"for each (there is only one many times insisted) debt you don’t pay, you are donating a hundred flying hammocks to the victims of neoliberalism. for each miscalculation, you save a bay. for each bay you save, we give this island

This text by Iman Mohamed explores the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism in southern Somalia’s Shabeelle valley, where forced labor and exploitation shaped both landscape and memory. "This history of forced labor is still bitterly alive in the collective memory of Somalis of the region."

"When a migrant or refugee or an undocumented person crosses the border, the struggle doesn’t end once they have entered within the nation state because the border follows them everywhere." thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...

routinely ignored, violently repressed, or appeased through superficial reforms. Global geopolitical shifts and rise of a young generation of nationalist leaders in West Africa (red channel) give rise to a revived dynamic in struggle towards monetary sovereignty." thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

This map by Moses März schematically outlines the conceptual and historical context in which the CFA Franc functions. "The colonial finance framework (black box) is geared towards the enrichment of the metropole and the maintenance of the colonial state machinery. For more than eight decades

We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...

We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...

This map by Moses März schematically outlines the conceptual and historical context in which the CFA Franc functions. "The colonial finance framework (black box) is geared towards the enrichment of the metropole and the maintenance of the colonial state machinery. For more than eight decades

"When a migrant or refugee or an undocumented person crosses the border, the struggle doesn’t end once they have entered within the nation state because the border follows them everywhere." thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...

Lily H. Chumley traces the making of the US dollar as a paper currency tied to histories of sovereignty, aesthetics, and competing institutions. She shows how the design of dollar bills speaks to historical junctures and helps us see the cultural potency of this money as much as

During a recent visit in Brazil, Myriam was taken by Cho’s exhibited artworks at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, which made us want to include it in this issue. This text by Cho contextualizes his use of cash registers’ receipts to talk about labor, value, temporality, and affect.