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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 08: Arakawa + Madeline Gins Now Published
The eighth volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles (as well as additional illustrations) of the blog about the philosophical-poetic-artistic-architectural work of...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 51 /// Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of...
Comme des Garçons AW 2010/2011 Today’s Funambulist Paper complements well yesterday’s launch of the eighth volume of the Funambulist Pamphlets dedicated to the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins since...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Colonial Architectures and Situated Gentrifying Bodies
Map of the five New York City boroughs represented by a dot per person living there / Dot Map / (blue: white / green: black / red: asian / yellow: hispanic / brown: other) In a city like New York,...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Temple Grandin’s Humane Slaughterhouses and the...
Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University who wrote several books about autism and animal science. Her autism allowed her to a detailed perception of the animal behavior and the...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Slave Ship is Architecture
Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788. (Library of US Congress) In the previous article, I was evoking the architecture of the holocaust’s gas chambers...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// The Clothing Semiotics of the Indian Independence Struggle
Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose (wearing a Gandhi cap) in 1938 Thanks to Mimi Thi Nguyen, I got to read Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India (University of Chicago Press, 1996) by...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 52 /// Racialized Geographies and the Fear of Ships...
Mass Arrival – Toronto, August 12, 2013 – Courtesy of Tings Chak Today’s Funambulist Paper is written by my friend Tings Chak whose work I admire for its brilliant articulation of academic research...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 22 /// The Architect’s Expertise in a Judicial Context with...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 23 /// The Body of the Flaneur with Adler Guerrier
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// The Designed Choreography of Torture
My recent encounter with the document presented above reminded me of the article “Violence on the Body: A Manual for the French Police Escorting ‘Illegal’ Immigrants” that I wrote three years ago, and...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 24 /// The Economics and Creativity of the Second-Hand Dress...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Topological Life: The Politics of Exchange between...
Dress by Yiqing Yin (photograph by Laurence Laborie) Topological Life: The Politics of Exchange between Membrane/Bodies (originally written for Berfrois based on the third episode of the Funambulist’s...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 25 /// A Political and Philosophical Reading of the Systems of...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// From the Highway to the Pill: Counter-History...
A picture of a family infront of their Levittown house (Cape Cod design), Tony Linck for LIFE Magazine, 1947 /// Found by Olivia Ahn In the frame of a recent conversation recorded for Archipelago with...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 26 /// Gender Performativity in the History of Suburban...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 27 /// The Black Panthers’ Struggle Against the American...
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# HISTORY /// Chrono-Cartography of the 1871 Paris Commune
On January 29, 2014, friends Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli posted an interesting article on Socks (check out their new interface!) based on photographs taken by Mike Ma of a map illustrating...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 28 /// What Forms of Politics Are Possible Through Design...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 29 /// The “No-State Solution”: Power of Imagination for the...
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# LAW /// Jacques Vergès’s Rupture Defense: From Antigone’s Anger to Djamila...
Every time we refer to recently deceased lawyer Jacques Vergès, it seems like some discursive precautions need to be taken. This is likely to be because commentators stop at the name of his clients...
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