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 have a francophone version as well!
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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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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."
"This history of forced labor is still bitterly alive in the collective memory of Somalis of the region."
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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."
"This history of forced labor is still bitterly alive in the collective memory of Somalis of the region."
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"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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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."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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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
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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!
thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...
Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote!
thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...
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...
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...
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...
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."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...
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…
thefunambulist.net
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."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/und...
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
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
Reposted by The Funambulist
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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
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This hits hard. The canal of mourning. Iman Mohamed explores the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism in southern Somalia
January 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This hits hard. The canal of mourning. Iman Mohamed explores the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism in southern Somalia
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“Follow the Money”.
The Funambulist drops another brilliant issue. 📚
The Funambulist drops another brilliant issue. 📚
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 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM
“Follow the Money”.
The Funambulist drops another brilliant issue. 📚
The Funambulist drops another brilliant issue. 📚
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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.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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.
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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
January 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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…
thefunambulist.net
January 16, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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...
thefunambulist.net/magazine/fol...
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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."
"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."
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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."
"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."