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...

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...

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.

follow the money ... minus 25 - went to post box quick

"To follow the money is a granular exercise because it asks about our methods to understand financial capitalism in order to resist it. Against the gatekeeping of knowledge on all things economic by economists..." Cover artwork: Adriana Martínez Barón thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...

We read how money is central to colonial and imperial projects, but also how sovereignty and the liberation of our monetary imaginary can be tools of emancipation. We embrace the politics of money, the social worlds of economic practices, and the proliferation of forms that money takes.

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...

"Where could the freed belong in a society still sustained by enslavement? The referent of Brazilianness—embraced as a civilization marker that distinguished them from locals Africans—remained inseparable from the image and last names of their former masters that had preceded freedom."

For a long time, we wanted to publish a sharp yet nuanced text on the instrumentalization of Indigenous identities by the Bolivian State. We are happy to propose such a text today through the carefully articulated words of Magali Vienca Copa Pabón.

"...who always seemed strong were struggling inside. Others, who’d seemed quiet or unsure, had been steady all along. That notebook became more than a collection of reflections; it became a mirror. For the first time in a long time, we really looked at ourselves." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...

We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world. Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...

We're delighted to open a new section in the magazine: “Learning With Our Elders.” It consists in asking an activist whose path has been a bit longer than most about a moment of their political trajectory where they learned something crucial from a mistake or failure (be it individual or collective)

For a long time, we wanted to publish a sharp yet nuanced text on the instrumentalization of Indigenous identities by the Bolivian State. We are happy to propose such a text today through the carefully articulated words of Magali Vienca Copa Pabón.

In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture

In this powerful text, Titilola L. N. Marinho and Gabriel Weber join forces to narrate the Agudá legacy—descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who, after enslavement in Brazil, resettled along the West African coast. Starting from the Great Mosque of Porto Novo, it examines how architecture

project in Messina–exist and resist. Across Gela’s fields, Augusta’s beaches, or Trapani’s mountains, grassroots collectives oppose pollution, landscape destruction, land theft with actions centering agroecology, environmental self-determination, community care." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...

under utterly opaque arrangements. These interventions are enabled by national and European agendas that prioritize energy production and profit extraction over justice, local participation, and territorial autonomy. However, dozens of ecologist groups and movements, like NO PONTE–against the bridge

policies, as well as its complicities with atlanticist militarism and Fortress Europe’s border enforcement. "Key actors in this green-washing colonial web include multinational firms such as ENI, Edison, Lukoil, Sonatrach, Canadian Solar, and Alta Capital, which collaborate with local governments

Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist

Current reading.

I hadn't! Really cool, love the Funambulist

As Tooze points out, Lambert made this point in 2016 & there’s a whole issue of The Funambulist from a few months ago on this. thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...

Ça me rappel cette vidéo qui parle de l'histoire spatiale du colonialisme français. Je dois piocher des truc dans son livre pour des cours de level design : www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfN3...

Donald Trump and the de minimis couldn’t stop it!

In another example of my reading choices being prescient, a couple of months ago I stocked up on past issues of The Funambulist ("Politics of Space & Bodies"). Issue #1? "Militarized Cities". #ThursdayBookChat They are making all their issues open access! thefunambulist.net

Within the Jewish community in Ru & Poland, fm the start, there were those that opposed the darker elements of Zionism. “The Bund loathed Zionism's nationalism, its racism, its contempt for the Jewish diaspora, and its slavish dependence on British imperialism.”

The Funambulist never fails thefunambulist.net/magazine/art...

“For Aymara women, weaving means that the pace of change is different; women prepare revolutions in advance, sustain them, and care for them, and in this step-by-step process, new institutions are solidified.” Magali Vienca Copa Pabón in a very insightful text in the last Funambulist.

el último número de @thefunambulist.bsky.social tiene por título "Building Trans Communities", favoreciendo un discurso que explora su dimensión colectiva y, por supuesto, crítica con las visiones individualistas liberales, especialmente occidentales. gracias siempre, léopold, por tu sensibilidad.

Up until now, Sicily had been absent from our pages. Thanks to the relationship established by Shivangi Mariam Raj with the island, we can remedy this with a text by Giuseppe Procida about the history and, crucially, the present of Sicilian resistance against the Italian state’s extractivist

"...politics of land expropriation, subjugation of Arab and Amazigh Muslim laborers, white-ethno-nationalist contours of French “universalism,” and scientific racism in medical research and practice in Algeria, reveal more about the birth of the gender clinic." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bui...

"These Afro-Arab itineraries and geographies of trans medicine can be understood as epistemic formations with material consequences in order to tease out an alternative history of the body across Northern Africa and its bearing on the medicalization of gender transition."

In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.

In this text, Beshouy Botros builds a historical reflection around two “gender clinics” in colonial Casablanca and Cairo, and how to understand the foundational infrastructures for medical transition in relation to these very particular temporal and spatial circumstances.

good morning with @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🌸

In this multigenre text, Shripad Sinnakaar traces three trajectories to understand Hijra communities in India. Flitting across beauty parlors, local trains, TikTok videos, street protests, goddess’ temples, and Dalit bastis, these trajectories introduce us to identities and socialities that refuse

pues, ea, a seguir a the funambulist si queréis ver cómo la política define el espacio y actúa frente a los cuerpos, plis

Excellent source of decolonial thinking and reporting - follow if that is your thing.