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 new issue of the @thefunambulist.bsky.social is looking amazing, especially the cover by the Palestinian geographer Samir Harb thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

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.

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.

The workshop is free and open to all, but participants are requested to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1kEI... The tickets for the film screening cost 10 dinars. Copies of The Funambulist in both anglophone and francophone version will be available for sale at the venue.

This film also resonates with our conversation with Dakar-based economist Ndongo Samba Sylla on how monetary sovereignty operates in west and central African countries, where, using the CFA franc, France imposes and maintains its neocolonialism in what came to be known as “Françafrique.”

Friends and readers in Tunis, Join us this Saturday at CinéMadart, Carthage for a writing workshop led by Myriam Amri and Asameena, followed by a conversation between Myriam Amri and Léopold Lambert. The event will conclude with a screening of 'Mandabi - Le Mandat' (1968) by Ousmane Sembène.

Friends and readers in Tunis, Join us this Saturday at CinéMadart, Carthage for a writing workshop led by Myriam Amri and Asameena, followed by a conversation between Myriam Amri and Léopold Lambert. The event will conclude with a screening of 'Mandabi - Le Mandat' (1968) by Ousmane Sembène.

When thinking about money and neocolonialism, few instances appear as striking as the CFA franc imposed by France on fourteen west and central African countries; a monetary apparatus central in the maintenance of what came to be known as “Françafrique.”

Hicham Safieddine traces the colonial history of money in Palestine, showing how imperial and Zionist financial systems erased native sovereignty through currency design, banking control, and asset expropriation. From Britain’s monetary partition of Greater Syria to Israel’s shekelization of the

Hicham Safieddine traces the colonial history of money in Palestine, showing how imperial and Zionist financial systems erased native sovereignty through currency design, banking control, and asset expropriation. From Britain’s monetary partition of Greater Syria to Israel’s shekelization of the

This hits hard. The canal of mourning. Iman Mohamed explores the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism in southern Somalia

“Follow the Money”. The Funambulist drops another brilliant issue. 📚

Des membres de Ballast, la revue Z, Jef Klak [@jefklakrevue.bsky.social], lundimatin [@lundimatin.bsky.social], Terrestres [@terrestres.bsky.social], Panthère Première et The Funambulist [@thefunambulist.bsky.social] discuteront de ce qui fait et défait, dans les années 2020, une revue militante.

Nisrin Elamin and Laleh Khalili discuss the intricate relations between capitalism and imperialism from Sudan outward. They examine together how “empire-making” projects bring together new imperial actors like the United Arab Emirates with Western imperialism. They locate how, by following the money

Lily H. Chumley traces the making of the US dollar as a paper currency tied to histories of sovereignty, aesthetics, and competing institutions. She helps us see the cultural potency of this money as much as its transformation into a global currency. thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

exposing the financial ties that underscore genocides from Sudan to Palestine. "These financial technologies are playing into the process of war-making and the forms of extra-state support, for example, as you were saying, sending of aid to unions, alliances, or community organizations in Sudan."

in Sudan, looking at the roles of gold, agricultural commodities, cross-border trade, and financial infrastructure, we can understand the current war as embedded in the fabric of colonial capitalism. Finally, they imagine how activists can follow the money, working through mutual aid networks and

Nisrin Elamin and Laleh Khalili discuss the intricate relations between capitalism and imperialism from Sudan outward. They examine together how “empire-making” projects bring together new imperial actors like the United Arab Emirates with Western imperialism. They locate how, by following the money

Hicham Safieddine traces the colonial history of money in Palestine, showing how imperial and Zionist financial systems erased native sovereignty through currency design, banking control, and asset expropriation. thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

"On Naming and Translating in Palestine" by Bekriah Mawasi via @thefunambulist.bsky.social thefunambulist.net/magazine/41-...

'You’ve Got Yourselves a Revolution, Now What?' is a game imagined by Myriam Amri and Léopold Lambert, and designed by Aude Abou Nasr. You can find it in our new issue "Follow the Money," where we reflect on imperial capitalism, colonial plunder, monetary sovereignty, and revolutionary currencies.

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We are happy to share with you our new issue "Follow the Money" (January–February 2026), coedited by Myriam Amri, where we enter the crevices of a capitalist system and trace it back to its central nodes: property, land, capital, and class. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW: thefunambulist.net/shop/63-foll...

💸 Our forthcoming issue, coedited by Tunisian anthropologist and visual artist Myriam Amri, focuses on imperial capitalism, colonial plunder, monetary sovereignty, and revolutionary currencies. Cover artwork by Adriana Martínez Barón. Preorder your copy now! thefunambulist.net/shop/63-foll...

For those in Amsterdam, you can pick up your copy of @thefunambulist.bsky.social at Framer Framed.

Thanks to @thefunambulist.bsky.social for featuring a poem from LO TERCIARIO/THE TERTIARY by @roqueraquel.bsky.social in their 63rd issue, "Follow the Money" Preorder the print copy of the issue now, and be on the lookout for the new edition of LO TERCIARIO/THE TERTIARY upcoming with Kriller!

"But this identity was double-edged, for it demanded an embrace of an inheritance inseparable from slavery itself. They became Brazilians in Africa, foreigners on both sides of the Ocean, compelled time and again to build a place of their own." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...