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# LITERATURE /// The Militaristic Essence of Cartography in the Invisible...
“You did not understand me Monsieur Nicolas…since yesterday the cartographic center is under the army’s tutelage, something that should have never stopped in the past.” All illustrations from François...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 62 /// Urban Space and the Production of Gender in...
Line 1 by Niyaz Azadikhah (2010) This 62nd Funambulist Paper is the last one of the second series dedicated to political and philosophical questions about the body, and the second volume that collects...
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# MAPS /// The Age of the Drone: No-Fly Zones and the Future Fear of Blue Sky
Fragment of a US map showing no-fly zones for drones by Map Box In the recent days, two similar incidents were reported around the presidential residencies of France and the United States. On January...
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# HISTORY /// “A Palimpsest Called Paris: Schuiten and Peeters’s Urban...
Les Halles de Baltard et le Paris perdu. Jour by François Schuiten, 2012 © Schuiten / Casterman A PALIMPSEST CALLED PARIS: FRANCOIS SCHUITEN AND BENOIT PEETERS’S URBAN FICTIONS Written for DAMN...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Technocrats vs. Luddites
Joyous Machines by Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely (1963) I am currently traveling for the purpose of Archipelago and did not find the appropriate time to write so far, so before some fresh texts here...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Politics of Overpopulated Spaces
Inside the Mediterranean boat “Blue Sky M” (December 2014) / Source: Mediapart As we currently receive the most tragic news from off shore Lampedusa, with the probable death of over 300 migrants whose...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 11: Cinema Now Published
The eleventh volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles of the blog about cinema is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for...
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# PALESTINE /// The Biblical Story of Navot: Legal Narratives for Land Takeover
Map of the Israeli settlements cluster between Bethlehem and Hebron / Download it here in high resolution (8.4 MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) I came back...
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# PALESTINE /// Constructing a Bubble: The Two Faces of Ramallah
“The Two Faces of Ramallah” / Download the map in high resolution (7.8 MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) I stayed in Ramallah a few weeks ago and was thus able to...
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# PALESTINE /// Hebron: Occupied Palestine at the Scale of a City
Download the map in high resolution (14 MB) and its close-up (2.1MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) This article is the third dedicated to Palestine in the form of...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Learning from Architectures Without Architects
Mahalaxmi Dhobighat (open-air laundry district) in Mumbai / Photo by Léopold Lambert (2009) Text originally written in French for my monthly “carte blanche” in Tracés Magazine (Switzerland) November...
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# MILITARIZED ARCHITECTURES /// Beirut & Cairo: The Dangerousness of the...
Downtown street in Cairo / Photograph by Léopold Lambert (February 2015) While I was recently spending some time in Beirut and Cairo, one of the things that stroke me is the difficulty to represent...
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# MAPS /// The Other Suez Canal: On the Internet Infrastructure
Middle East Telecommunication Map (TeleGeography 2015) On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army lost the major battle of Waterloo in Belgium against a coalition gathering the United Kingdom,...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Invisible and Scrutinized Bodies
Originally published as “Invisible and Scrutinized Bodies,” in Andrea Pavoni (ed), Lo Squaderno 35 (March 2015) The following text will attempt to demonstrate that both processes that aim at making...
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# LAW /// Politics of Narrowness: International Legislation in the Strait of...
This article aims to be in the continuity of the recent one about the Suez Canal and the geopolitics of submarine Internet cables, as well as a contribution to my first attempts articulating a few...
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# HISTORY /// The Hospital as a Laboratory: The Production of Medical...
Still from The Knick by Steven Soderbergh (2014) The Hospital as a Laboratory: The Production of Medical Knowledge Through the Bodies, originally written for L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 405...
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# LAW /// Incarcerating Bodies: The Particular Case of San Pedro Prison
Carcel de San Pedro in La Paz / Photographs by Martin Konerding & Erik Fantasia As many of you know, the topic of the prison is a particularly important one on The Funambulist. Questioning the...
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# PALESTINE /// “Make the Desert Bloom”: Manufacturing the Israeli...
Still from The Village under the Forest by Mark J Kaplan and Heidi Grunebaum (2013) Too often along the lines of the work articulated here, I tend to propose a vision of Palestine that is involuntarily...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS VOLUME 2 Now Published
I am very happy to announce that the second volume of The Funambulist Papers and its 26 great contributions are now published by punctum books in association with the Center for Transformative Media at...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Bodies on the Targetting Line: Trying to Make Sense...
Rachel Corrie confronting a Israeli army bulldozer before being killed by it (March 13, 2003) A few months ago, I learned that Judith Butler was going to give a lecture at the London School of...
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