We Are the “Human Shields” of Our Governments
Introductory note: In July-August 2014, the war launched by the Israeli army on Gaza killed 2,251 Palestinians, among which at least 1,463 were civilians. When confronted to these figures, the Israeli...
View ArticleThe Designer and The Prison: A Love Story
Carceral dome for the Zaandam migrant detention center by Customr Willem van der Sluis / Photo by Luuk Kramer As the latest issue of The Funambulist Magazine is dedicated to Carceral Environments,...
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From a Racist Imaginary to Gentrification: TV News, Politicians, Police and...
One of the most recurrent questions asked by French main media in their current campaign against — the animosity they manifest allows this term to be used here — any form of manifestation of Islamic...
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New Book: Bulldozer Politics – The Palestinian Ruin as an Israeli...
It has been a little while since I knew that two new books I wrote would be published around the same time. While the second one will exist in bilingual French/English version (more about it in the...
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Report from Calais and Grande Synthe (Part 1): Two Political Architectures of...
Important Note: As usual when it comes to such topics, I decided to reserve all rights when it comes to the photographs presented in this article (other pictures that I publish on this blog are...
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New Book: Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall,...
3 of the 13 drawings for Topie Impitoyable by Loredana Micu Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street published by punctum books, 2016. As announced a few days...
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DESIGN AND RACISM, the Fifth Issue of The Funambulist Magazine Now Published
It is my great pleasure to announce the release of the fifth issue of The Funambulist Magazine (May-June 2016) as well as its formal launch event in New York on May 4th. It is dedicated to a...
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Report from the New York Launch of The Funambulist Magazine 5: Design & Racism
Yesterday evening, we formally launched the fifth issue of The Funambulist Magazine (May-June 2016): Design & Racism in Brooklyn, NY. After a presentation of the magazine itself (that I...
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Report from Calais and Grande Synthe (Part 2 by Merve Bedir): (Spatial)...
All photos by Merve Bedir (April 2016) / All rights reserved Report from Calais and Grande Synthe (part 2): (Spatial) Transformation of Migration Control by Merve Bedir See part 1: “Two Political...
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The Architecture of Nuit Debout: On Architects’ Compulsive Need to Build Walls
Photograph by Meriem Chabani (May 15, 2016) I had not yet written anything about Nuit Debout, the current movement that has been occupying the square of the République in Paris since March 31, 2016....
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“Police Brutality Is a Hollow Term”: On the Current Policing Violence in France
Image above – Street art by Dip Social Klub at Nuit Debout: “The police violence you are currently experiencing, it exists in the banlieues for more than thirty years.” “Homage to all the victims of...
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Lecture “The Rule of Walls: An Architectural Reading of the State’s...
“The Rule of Walls: An Architectural Reading of the State’s ‘Legitimate’ Use of Violence” Lecture given on May 18, 2016 at the Warwick Political Geography Conference The notion of “legitimate use of...
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Architecture Under Attack: Investigating the State Narrative After the June...
Mobile police fence, allowing only a controlled pedestrian access to the Rue de Rennes on June 14, 2016 / Photo by Léopold Lambert To the risk of spending too much time on political matters specific to...
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The Stadium, an Architecture that Concentrates and Control Bodies: 2015 Kos,...
Text originally written in French for a journal that should remain nameless as the text was published along 14 others, all written by male contributors. I nevertheless want to thank Nicolas Hannequin...
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OBJECT POLITICS, the Sixth Issue of The Funambulist Magazine Now Published
I am happy to announce that the sixth issue of The Funambulist Magazine (July-August 2016), dedicated to Object Politics is now officially published. This new issue concludes the first year of...
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Off the Reservation: Lakota Life and Death in Rapid City, South Dakota by...
As we learn everyday about new arbitrary murders of Native and Black bodies in the United States by primarily white police officers, it seems crucial to bring as much information and reflection on the...
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Political Friendships: The Funambulist Magazine “Behind the Scenes”
(image above) The 127 guests (friends) of Archipelago, The Funambulist’s podcast since January 2014. On July 2nd, I was lucky enough to be able to be part of the Athens conference Autonoma, presenting...
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Envisioning the Future (Policed) Space of Protest: The June 23 Bastille...
Police checkpoint filtering the access to the June 23 demonstration in Paris / All photographs by Léopold Lambert (2016) This article is written in the continuity of two others that described the...
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State Misogyny: France’s Colonial Unveiling History Against Muslim Women
A few days ago, Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard promulgated a formal ban on full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women on the city’s beaches — these swimsuits are oddly designated as “burkini” when...
View ArticleFrance’s Neocoloniality and Structural Racism: A Conversation with Nacira...
At a moment when many eyes are turned towards France and the violent relation of the State, its police and the law with its Muslim citizens, in particular women, it seemed very important to me to place...
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