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# SPINOZA /// Spinozist Body/Terrain: We Ignore Where the Body Stops
Otto Lilienthal in 1893 A good way to articulate thoughts consists in a dialogue with friends; that is what I intend to do here, by basing my reflection about the Spinozist body on the article written...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Political and Administrative Capture of Female Bodies
“In public space, no one can wear an outfit dissimulating the face. (“Law of October 11, 2010)” We can no longer allow others to turn our mucous membranes, our skin, all our sensitive areas into...
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# POLITICS /// Fear as Government: The Insurgent Zombies Are Back
Excerpt from Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012) I am currently reading To Our Friends (La Fabrique, Semiotext(e), 2014) (by that I mean that I...
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# BOOKS /// To Our Friends, Episode 1: Insurrectionist and...
Massive demonstration on the Zócalo in Mexico City (Nov. 20, 2014) As announced in the previous article, I will dedicate three ‘episodes’ to the new book written by The Invisible Committee, To Our...
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# BOOKS /// To Our Friends Episode 2: What Did We Do Wrong When We Occupied...
A daily General Assembly at Occupy Wall Street (October 2011) / Photograph by Léopold Lambert This second episode dedicated to The Invisible Committee‘s book, To Our Friends (Semiotext(e) & La...
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# LAW /// Police and Violence: Taking the Notion of “Law Enforcement” Seriously
Protesters in Ukraine holding mirrors to show the police their own reflection / Photograph extracted from the lecture ““How to Dress up a Police?,” by Ethel Baraona Pohl at the seminar Missions and...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 57 /// Patterns of Life: A Very Short History of...
Pablo Picasso drawing with light / Photograph by Gjon Mili (1949) The second series of The Funambulist Papers continues around the topic of bodies. Today, I am glad and honored to welcome Grégoire...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// “Human Engineering”: The Constraining Mensurations of...
This article is intended to continue a specific part of the research started with Weaponized Architecture: the consideration of a normative body when creating objects and architecture (see other...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Combat Breathing: Frantz Fanon and Corporeal Violence
Still from the film Concerning Violence by Göran Olsson (2013) This article intends to give a personal critique of the usual interpretation of violence in the work of Frantz Fanon, in particular in...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 58 /// Corpographies: Making Sense of Modern War by...
Stills from the film Diary of an Unknown Soldier by Peter Watkins (1959) / See past article The second series of The Funambulist Papers, dedicated to the bodies is almost over (four more texts soon...
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# BOOKS /// To Our Friends Episode 3: “Power Is Logistic: Let’s Shut Down...
The Black Lives Matter movement shutting down a highway (November 2014) This article is the third and last ‘episode’ around The Invisible Committee‘s new book, To Our Friends (Semiotext(e) & La...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 59 /// Palestine Made Flesh by Sophia Azeb
Artwork by Mustafa al Hallaj (1938-2002) The 59th Funambulist Paper, “Palestine Made Flesh” is the continuation of a fantastic conversation I had with Sophia Azeb in last April for Archipelago. Back...
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# ARCHITECTURE /// Architecture Offices and Dominant Discursive Violence:...
Yesterday, on December 22, 2014, the blog ARCH2O published an outrageous article written by a former employee of Rotterdam/NY-based architecture office OMA. In this article entitled “What I Learned at...
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# LAW /// The Speech of Things: Review of Forensis for The New Inquiry
Assistant state attorneys John Guy, left, and Bernie de la Rionda, right, display the hooded sweatshirt worn by Trayvon Martin the night he was shot by George Zimmerman. (Credit: AP) The Speech of...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Homage to Gravity: An Exhibition Proposal (2013)
Still of Only the Bad Sleep Well by Akira Kurosawa (1960) HOMAGE TO GRAVITY: Architecture and the Body /// An exhibition proposal for the 2013 Young Curator Program at the Canadian Center for...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 60 /// Bee Workers and the Expanding Edges of...
Today, I publish the 60th Funambulist Paper (23rd of the second series that will be published in the Second Volume by Punctum Books), written by Renisa Mawani (listen on Archipelago: “The Archive:...
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# HISTORY /// Abysmal Atlantic: The Slave Ships’ Genocide
Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor in Grenada (2013) Discovering the underwater sculptures of Guyanese English artist Jason deCaires Taylor, in particular, Vicissitudes (2013) in the Caribbean Sea,...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 61 /// Profiling Surfaces by Mimi Thi Nguyen
If you enjoy as much as me reading papers by Mimi Thi Nguyen (see our two conversations for Archipelago in 2013 and 2014), this 61st Funambulist Paper (and penultimate of the second series) will be my...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Infrastructural Urban Canyons: The Axes of...
Canyon Cities (Detroit, Oakland, Paris) by Léopold Lambert (2015) / Download them here in high resolution (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) In a recent article...
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# MAPS /// Another Paris: The Banlieue Imaginary
Maps created for the purpose of this article / Download them here in high resolution (11 MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) In the wake of the recent attacks...
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