The Funambulist
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The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.
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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.
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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!
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Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote!
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February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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...
Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote!
thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...
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."
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Map Against Colonial Currency
This map 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...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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."
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the CFA Franc effectively served this purpose, draining France’s former African colonies off their natural resources while flooding their markets with French products (big arrows). Protest against this neocolonial system by politicians, activists, scholars, and artists (red crayon), has been
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
the CFA Franc effectively served this purpose, draining France’s former African colonies off their natural resources while flooding their markets with French products (big arrows). Protest against this neocolonial system by politicians, activists, scholars, and artists (red crayon), has been
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
"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
February 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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
"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."
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An Internationalist Front Against Border Imperialism
A CONVERSATION WITH HARSHA WALIA In this conversation recorded for The Funambulist podcast in April 2021, Léopold talks with Harsha Walia about the research deployed in her book, Border and Rule…
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February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"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."
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to income reporting to maintain their education or benefits status, for elderly people who struggle to manage the risks of digital accounts.
Cash is less vulnerable to taxation or garnishment than bank accounts."
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Cash is less vulnerable to taxation or garnishment than bank accounts."
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The Almighty Dollar
In this text, 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…
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February 3, 2026 at 10:50 AM
to income reporting to maintain their education or benefits status, for elderly people who struggle to manage the risks of digital accounts.
Cash is less vulnerable to taxation or garnishment than bank accounts."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
Cash is less vulnerable to taxation or garnishment than bank accounts."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
"While cash in mattresses is flammable and cash theft hard to trace, paper money is still cheaper and safer than digital money for many small, everyday purchases. Cash is anonymous. It’s the first choice for unhoused and undocumented communities, for children, for people who are legally subject
February 3, 2026 at 10:48 AM
"While cash in mattresses is flammable and cash theft hard to trace, paper money is still cheaper and safer than digital money for many small, everyday purchases. Cash is anonymous. It’s the first choice for unhoused and undocumented communities, for children, for people who are legally subject
its transformation into a global currency. Understanding the dollar as physical currency opens up the space to consider the persistence of cash alongside struggles to reform money today, from digital to new sovereign monies.
February 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
its transformation into a global currency. Understanding the dollar as physical currency opens up the space to consider the persistence of cash alongside struggles to reform money today, from digital to new sovereign monies.
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
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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
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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...
ORDER YOUR COPY NOW: thefunambulist.net/shop/63-foll...
January 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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...
ORDER YOUR COPY NOW: thefunambulist.net/shop/63-foll...
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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.
February 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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.
"I started creating my own receipts, printed with texts, codes, and images that arise from affective experiences, and contaminate the standardized format of this object, resulting in a different kind of receipt: a document that bears witness to human experience."
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What is the Cost of 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. The following text…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
"I started creating my own receipts, printed with texts, codes, and images that arise from affective experiences, and contaminate the standardized format of this object, resulting in a different kind of receipt: a document that bears witness to human experience."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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The desire for upward movement dissolved in the urgency of the present: thinking about the future seemed futile.
A decade later, while in art school, a latent unease about the dynamics of labor and survival began to guide my artistic research toward thermal paper.
A decade later, while in art school, a latent unease about the dynamics of labor and survival began to guide my artistic research toward thermal paper.
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The desire for upward movement dissolved in the urgency of the present: thinking about the future seemed futile.
A decade later, while in art school, a latent unease about the dynamics of labor and survival began to guide my artistic research toward thermal paper.
A decade later, while in art school, a latent unease about the dynamics of labor and survival began to guide my artistic research toward thermal paper.
Coming from an immigrant family, I believed that hard work would be the path toward the financial stability needed to give meaning to everyday life. For that reason, I devoted myself intensely to my job. On my days off, I was no one, just a body in maintenance for the next workday.
February 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Coming from an immigrant family, I believed that hard work would be the path toward the financial stability needed to give meaning to everyday life. For that reason, I devoted myself intensely to my job. On my days off, I was no one, just a body in maintenance for the next workday.
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.
February 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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.
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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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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.
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.
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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.”
January 27, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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.”
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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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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.
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.
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.”
January 27, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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.”
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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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.
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.
central bank to stop executing your expenditures and acting as your fiscal agent."
"The international monetary and financial order benefits the imperialist powers... while debtor countries undergo permanent structural adjustment."
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"The international monetary and financial order benefits the imperialist powers... while debtor countries undergo permanent structural adjustment."
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CFA Franc and Monetary Sovereignty on the African Continent
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…
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January 26, 2026 at 3:10 PM
central bank to stop executing your expenditures and acting as your fiscal agent."
"The international monetary and financial order benefits the imperialist powers... while debtor countries undergo permanent structural adjustment."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
"The international monetary and financial order benefits the imperialist powers... while debtor countries undergo permanent structural adjustment."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
"Having formal monetary sovereignty—having your own currency issued by your central bank—is important because it creates a bulwark against financial sanctions: your foreign assets can be frozen, you can be prevented from conducting transactions with foreign banks, etc., but no one can order your
January 26, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"Having formal monetary sovereignty—having your own currency issued by your central bank—is important because it creates a bulwark against financial sanctions: your foreign assets can be frozen, you can be prevented from conducting transactions with foreign banks, etc., but no one can order your
To understand its mechanism and, crucially, how monetary sovereignty operates, we talked with Dakar-based economist Ndongo Samba Sylla.
"Currency is an instrument that allows the state to procure resources. When you don’t have your own currency, you cannot have financial independence."
"Currency is an instrument that allows the state to procure resources. When you don’t have your own currency, you cannot have financial independence."
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 PM
To understand its mechanism and, crucially, how monetary sovereignty operates, we talked with Dakar-based economist Ndongo Samba Sylla.
"Currency is an instrument that allows the state to procure resources. When you don’t have your own currency, you cannot have financial independence."
"Currency is an instrument that allows the state to procure resources. When you don’t have your own currency, you cannot have financial independence."
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.”
January 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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.”