"In Kalk Bay, we learned to swim on Fisheries Beach, which was first written about by the Dutch colonizer and slaver Simon van der Stel, Governor of the Cape in the 1700s. It was also the beach where the British colonizers processed southern right whales and boiled their blubber to send the oil

In South Africa’s Western and Northern Capes provinces, people racialized as “coloured” represent 42% of the population. This particular racial category engineered by settler colonial authorities to designate people of mixed heritage (in particular indigenous Khoi or San as well as formerly enslaved

During his last visit in Johannesburg, Léopold was taken north of Pretoria, to the township of Mabopane by Mpho Moshe Matheolane to visit the Odi stadium—the remarkable architectural twin of the Mmabatho Stadium, in Mmabatho on the other side of what used to be Bophuthatswana between 1977 and 1994.

@williamcson.bsky.social's text on Black Zionism in @thefunambulist.bsky.social is so, so, so good! 🔥🔥 I recommend checking it out, I strongly related to the frustration about people still hanging on to the (nation-)state as a path to/tool for liberation!

💥 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...

We turn to Noor Nieftagodien, whose work engages with various spatial and temporal scales of township politics. This allows us to talk about the 1976 Soweto Uprising in relation with its urban and historical contexts: how the township (and within it, the migrant workers’ hostels) materializes a

The following excerpts are drawn from the essay of the same name, published in The Boston Review’s Fall 2025 issue, reproduced here with the generous authorization of the author and her editor. Panashe Chigumadzi argues that “apartheid” has become the dominant framework through which Southern

Putting Johannesburg-based researchers uMbuso weNkosi and Zara Julius in conversation around umbilical relationships with the land was a key idea of this issue. Through ritual, sound, funerals, graves, and ancestralization, they explore time, resistance, relationality, and Black futurity amid

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In light of the election results in India, the complicity of us in the diaspora who benefit from avoiding talking about caste & oppression, go read @thefunambulist.bsky.social's issue - The Subcontinent. OPEN ACCESS to a wealth of bite-sized stories of resistence! thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

If you are based in Southern Africa and you wish to order a copy of our new issue "Fifty Years After Soweto" (May–June 2026), please note: - Print copies have free shipping! - Digital copies are free! ORDER HERE: thefunambulist.net/shop/65-afte...

William C. Anderson in the latest issue of The Funambulist. Anderson is one of the best anarchist thinkers I have ever read.

The No-State Solution special issue of The Funambulist

Found my copy of last years Jan/Feb Funambulist magazine including this beautiful reflection of forging. The quote's author names the way states appropriate the divine's ability to create something from nothing but arrest any Prometheus who tries to do likewise thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...

For more reading on this, I have written a piece for the Funambulist: thefunambulist.net/magazine/alg...

I've also read more of the 2014 Funambulist: Science fiction, edited by Leopold Lambert. I'm nearing the end, but this week saw the conclusion of the parking garage short story, and some more discussion of Ballard and sci fi focused on dense city spaces.

Des ressources pour comprendre et soutenir les personnes détenues et leurs révoltes dans les prisons : 👉 "Si nous croyons que ce pouvoir carcéral est l’une des formes les plus impitoyables d’oppression, alors la libération n’est jamais autant pratiquée que lors du soulèvement des prisons."

Southern Africa in 1976 (including bantustans created by the South African regime in South Africa and occupied Namibia). / Map by Adéla Vavříková. The Soweto Uprising was not a revolt to gain rights; it was a movement against the very structures of settler colonialism in South Africa.

Southern Africa in 1976 (including bantustans created by the South African regime in South Africa and occupied Namibia). / Map by Adéla Vavříková. The Soweto Uprising was not a revolt to gain rights; it was a movement against the very structures of settler colonialism in South Africa.

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...