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# PHILOSOPHY /// The Hypochondriac Body
Today’s article, like the previous one, starts from a Deleuzian concept, but may drift apart from it. Someone who is hypochondriac is someone who keeps asking Why do I have? “Why do I have a spleen,...
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# HISTORY /// Constructed Truth Discourses Archaeology: Revising Histories by...
Aarhus-based architect James Martin was kind enough to share with me the small book he created (with the help of my friends Ben Clement and Sebastian de la Cour) around, what I would call, an...
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# LIBERTY SQUARE /// Occupy Gezi: The Reason why Politicians are so Afraid of...
A Body of Gezi Park. 31 May 2013. From Yücel Tunca via Nar Photos. For the last five days, the small park of Gezi near Taksim square in Istanbul has been occupied by dozens of thousands of people...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 01: SPINOZA now published
The first volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers past articles of the blog, is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons...
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# BOOKS /// War Games with Consequences: 6 The Rise of the Machines
Three months ago, my friend Francois Bellanger from Transit City wrote an article about what sounded like a peculiar book about the “algorithmiticization” of the world stock exchanges. Entitled 6: Le...
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# FUNAMBULISTS /// Designing Gravity: Five Young Designers and the Body...
Prosthetic Aesthetics by Lawrence Lek (2012) Today I want to talk (once again) about the body and its relationship to design by presenting five young (four of them are less than 30 years old) designers...
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# CINEMA /// The Borgesian Labyrinth of Alain Resnais and Henri Labrouste
In 1956, Alain Resnais created a 20-minute long film entitled Toute la Mémoire du Monde (All the World’s Memory) that beautifully mixes documentary information with a fictitious style of filming and...
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# LIBERTY SQUARE /// The Republic of Taksim
The Republic of Taksim: that is this title that French newspaper Libération chose for its first page today. The title is associated to a picture taken on Taksim square in Istanbul showing the crowd of...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Politics and Philosophy of the Sliding Point Based on Henri...
Chronophotography of dancer Ami Shulman walking, (Montreal 2009) by Joseph Butch Rovan I have not mentioned the work of Henri Bergson very often in the past. I actually can remember of having used his...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// New Archive About the Philosophical and Political Body
It has been a while now that I am accumulating articles that address the philosophical or/and political dimension of the human (and sometimes non-human) body. I decided therefore to add one “category”...
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# PHOTOGRAPHY /// The Geographical Choice of the Body: This is not Me by...
Mohamad (Lebanon) / Photograph by Bridgette Auger This is not me: Enduring Syria’s War is an exhibition by artist Bridgette Auger currently on view at NYU’s Tisch Gallery in New York. The endurance...
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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 41 /// What IS the Problem? by Nick Axel
The Abbey of Thélème Today’s guest writer, Nick Axel has been already published twice on The Funambulist: once in April 2011, for his Supurban Project when he was still a student, and the second time...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// The Body is not One, it is Legion
Quantum Cloud & Capacitor by Antony Gormley In the recent opening article of the archival category “Topie Impitoyable“, I was trying to develop a sort of manifesto around the notion of...
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# LITERATURE /// On the Notion of Failure
On the Notion of Failure /// (originally published on Failed Architecture. Thank you to Mark Minkjan for asking me to write this article) First scene: A bureaucrat is sitting in a closed room...
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# POLITICS /// Wondering About a New Notion of the Collective in Arqa Magazine
Portugal magazine Arqa recently published its last issue about the notion of “New Collectives”. Part of this issue is composed of a series of interviews asking the same three questions to various...
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# FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 03: DELEUZE now published
The third volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles of the blog about Deleuze, is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for...
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# LEGAL THEORY /// In Praise of the Essence of the American Second Amendment:...
Despite what the title indicates, I have not been convinced by the National Riffles Association’s arguments against any forms of legislation to control the commerce of guns in the United States. These...
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# CINEMA /// The Diary of an Unknown Soldier & The Forgotten Faces: Two Films...
Nine screenshots from the film The Diary of an Unknown Soldier by P. Watkins The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) and The Forgotten Faces (1961) are the two first films of Peter Watkins. These two...
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# POLITICS /// What is a People: Butler, Badiou, Bourdieu, Rancière, Khiari &...
La Fabrique is a bold publishing house with an impressive productive rate. After having successively evoked Maintenant il faut des armes (Now We Need Weapons) by Auguste Blanqui, L’Insurrection qui...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// The Violence on the Female Body in Pina Bausch’s Work
Many of us probably saw the horrifying videos of the new collective rapes that happened in the last few weeks on Tahrir Square by groups of men who took advantage of the political crowd in order to...
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