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The Funambulist Podcast — 250 episodes
2026_0525 Comores Mada Ilam
Zara Julius & Zoé Samudzi /// A Funeral For...
Em Inam /// S'organiser en diaspora pour la lutte eela tamoule
Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 3/3
Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 2/3
Guest Podcast: Architecture of Repair in Palestine 1/3
Dawn Marie Paley /// Editing Ojalá.mx an introspective look at the Latin American Left and Feminisms
Florian Vertriest /// Alma Gare, Roubaix
Charza Shahabuddin /// Guerre de Libération et Révolution Bangladeshies
Dilda Ramazan /// Kazakh·e·s et Kazakhstanais·e·s
Hafsa Kanjwal /// Kashmir Against the Grain of Normalcy
Jean-Alex Quach /// Design, Cuisine et Histoire Cambodgienne
Faraşîn /// Kurdistan, Confédéralisme Démocratique et Diaspora Kurde
Anja Rakotonirina /// Luttes anticoloniales malgaches
Audrey Albert /// Introduction to the Chagossian Struggle
Adam Elliott-Cooper /// Black Resistance to British Policing
Island Pieces /// Lutter contre le racisme, le castisme et la colonialité à Maurice
Quartiers Populaires #11 Youcef Sekimi /// Firminy Vert
Suvendrini Perera & Joseph Pugliese /// Deathscapes
Diasporas et Imaginaires des Luttes /// Maïa Tellit Hawad: Le Souffle du Pays Touareg
Alexia Fiasco & Nilton Mascarenhas /// Histoire du Cap-Vert et de sa Diaspora
Eléonore Tran /// Art et photographies de la diaspora vietnamienne
Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston /// Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi /// Vietnamese "Refugee Settlers" in Guåhan and Palestine
STEVEN SALAITA /// Languages of Colonialism and Resistance in Palestine
Quito Swan /// Black Internationalism From Bermuda and Africa to the Oceanian Struggles
Mohamad Amer Meziane /// An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Jessica Namakkal /// On French Colonialism in India
Diasporas et Imaginaires des Luttes /// Priya Ange & Anita Kittery: Puducherry & Tamil Nadu
SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI /// Waiting Bodies in Dictatorial and Bordering Regimes
Diasporas & Imaginaires des luttes /// Laura Huertas Millan: Histoires et Trajectoires Colombiennes
Diasporas & Imaginaires des luttes /// Vishni Francis Jeyaratnam: Objets et histoires tamouls d'Îlam
MICHAËLA DANJÉ /// AfroTrans (interview by Amélie Tresfels)
HARSHA WALIA /// An Internationalist Front Against Border Imperialism
GEO MAHER /// Building the Venezuelan Communes
Quartiers Populaires #10 M. H. Abdallah & H. Ben Boubaker /// De la Commune à Aujourd'hui 2/2
Quartiers Populaires #10 M. H. Abdallah & H. Ben Boubaker /// De la Commune à Aujourd'hui 1/2
Quartiers Populaires #09 Marwan Mohammed /// Les Hautes Noues, Villiers-sur-Marne
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Yériché et Anaïs: Diaspora Arménienne
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Ozan Çeneli: Les originaires de Turquie
Quartiers Populaires #08 Karima El Kharraze /// La Madeleine, Evreux
Quartiers Populaires #07 Les Potagers, Nanterre (deuxième partie)
Quartiers Populaires #07 Les Potagers, Nanterre
AWA KONATÉ /// Anti-Blackness and Nordic Exceptionalism
LAUSAN /// Struggles & Solidarities from Hong Kong to Black Lives Matter
ZOÉ SAMUDZI /// Namibian History, Anticolonial Solidarities & Reparative Futurities
Quartiers Populaires #06 Alèssi Dell'Umbria /// La Plaine, Marseille
EDWARD HALEALOHA AYAU /// Reparations: 30 Years of Repatriation of Hawaiian Ancestors
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Feda Wardak: Diasporas Afghanes
Quartiers Populaires #05 Mathieu Rigouste /// Le Luth, Gennevilliers
Quartiers Populaires #04 Jean-Riad Kechaou /// Les Bosquets, Montfermeil
Quartiers Populaires #03 Mapie /// Trénelle-Citron, Fort-de-France
Quartiers Populaires #02 Meryem Bahia /// Empalot, Toulouse
Quartiers Populaires #01 Hajer Ben Boubaker /// Barbès, Paris (2/2)
Quartiers Populaires #01 Hajer Ben Boubaker /// Barbès, Paris (1/2)
A Day to Remember - Brintha Koneshachandra /// May 18, 2009 in Eelam
AHMAD BARCLAY /// Palestine, Today: A Counter-Mapping Tool
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Jeunesse Autochtone De Guyane
A Moment of True Decolonization #31 Ruth Wilson Gilmore /// Beginning of a Perfect Decolonial Moment
A Moment of True Decolonization #30 Mariana de Matos /// Poetic Fictions from Brazil
A Moment of True Decolonization #29 Minia Biabiany /// An Island Giving Birth to Islands
A Moment of True Decolonization #28 Atiyyah Khan /// Jazz Against Apartheid (Talk + DJ Mix)
A Moment of True Decolonization #27 Jaskiran Dhillon /// The Idle No More Indigenous Movement
A Moment of True Decolonization #25 Shahram Khosravi /// Border Smuggling as Decolonial Practice
A Moment of True Decolonization #25 Joao Gabriel /// 3 Decolonial Moments of Guadeloupean History
A Moment of True Decolonization #24 Menna Agha /// The Nubian House Won't Die Silently
A Moment of True Decolonization #23 Joy Mboya /// Power Knowledge and Being on the African Continent
A Moment of True Decolonization #22 Mpho Matsipa /// Post-Apartheid Spatial Futurities
A Moment of True Decolonization #21 Chandni Desai /// Cultural and Land-Based Palestinian Resistance
A Moment of True Decolonization #20 Ali Jimale Ahmed /// Proverbs for a Decolonized Consciences
#19 Nish Morris /// The Djabwurrung Embassy in Aboriginal Country
A Moment of True Decolonization #18 Jessica "Coco" Hansell /// Indigenous Island Time
A Moment of True Decolonization #17 Nay Saysourinho /// Decolonial Fairy Tales
A Moment of True Decolonization #16 Saba Innab /// Reconstructing Nahr el Bared Refugee Camp
A Moment of True Decolonization #15 Melanie K. Yazzie /// Navajo Decolonial Grief & Rage for Loreal
A Moment of True Decolonization #14 Laurel Mei-Singh /// Decolonial Practices in Hawai'i
A Moment of True Decolonization #13 Sónia Vaz Borges /// Learning from Amílcar Cabral
A Moment of True Decolonization #12 Reem Abbas /// Women's fb Groups for the Sudanese Revolution
A Moment of True Decolonization #11 Linda Quiquivix /// Imagining New Worlds with the Zapatistas
A Moment of True Decolonization #10 Miriam Hillawi Abraham /// The Exotic Other
A Moment of True Decolonization #09 Zoé Samudzi /// Black Anarchism
A Moment of True Decolonization #08 Léuli Eshrāghi /// Priority to Indigenous Pleasures
A Moment of True Decolonization #07 Ana Naomi De Sousa /// The House of Students of the Empire
A Moment of True Decolonization #06 Sinthujan Varatharajah /// Constructing the Tamil Eelam State
A Moment of True Decolonization #05 Amy McQuire /// Aboriginal Women's Presence
A Moment of True Decolonization 04 Omar Berrada /// Decolonizing the Screen
A Moment of True Decolonization 03 Kite /// Lakota Economy of Giving
A Moment of True Decolonization 02 Sophia Azeb /// Palestinian Futurities
A Moment of True Decolonization 01 Fania Noël /// The Haitian Proclamation of Independence
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Hugo Dos Santos: Immigration portugaise
Walter Bgoya /// PanAfrican Publishing and the Struggle for a Second Liberation
Diasporas & Imaginaire des Luttes /// Apinayaa U: Tamoul⸱e⸱s d'Îlam
Diasporas et Imaginaires des Luttes /// Pierre Wélépa: Le Combat Kanak
Diasporas & Imaginaires des Luttes /// Dawud Bumaye: Les Comores
COLIN PRESCOD /// Justice4Grenfell: A Political Walk in North Kensington, London
Imran Mohammad /// On Genocide, Detention, and Refugeehood
THE FUNAMBULIST EVENTS /// Political Geographies of Chicago
MPHO MATSIPA /// On Spaces of Possibilities and African Mobilities
JACQUELINE HOÀNG NGUYỄN /// Diasporic Archives vs. Colonial Archives
NADIA BEN YOUSSEF /// Spreading the Decolonial Spirit of Bandung from Tunisia to Turtle Island
MADONNA THUNDER HAWK & MARCELLA GILBERT /// History of Indigenous Resistance in Turtle Island
TSHEPO MADLINGOZI /// There Is Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in South Africa
ALMEN MODSTAND /// A Resistance Movement Against the Racist Danish ‘Ghetto’ Laws
Discreet Violence 5: Discussion
Discreet Violence 4: Hassina Mechaï - L'etat d'urgence de 2015
Discreet Violence 3: Léopold Lambert - Espace-temps du 17 octobre 1961
Discreet Violence 2: Samia Henni - Les bidonvilles d'Alger et de Nanterre
Discreet Violence 1: Introduction by Kader Attia, Samia Henni, Léopold Lambert
FRANCESCA RUSSELO AMMON / Bulldozer Politics in Cold War U.S.
HODA KATEBI /// A Conversation Around Clothing Politics
SARA FARRIS /// European Femonationalism and Domestic Violence Against Women
WENDY MATSUMURA /// The History of Okinawa's Struggle Against Imperialism
MAYANTHI FERNANDO /// Muslim French and the Contradiction of Secularism
Virilism, Clandestiny and Alternative Modes of Being Queer & Arab in France
SAMIA HENNI /// The French Counter-Revolutionary Architecture in 1950s Algeria
CRYSTAL MARIE FLEMING /// Blackness, Memorialization of Slavery, and Racial Denials in France
EYAL WEIZMAN /// Forensic Investigations of Designed Destructions in Gaza
CHANELLE ADAMS /// The Politics of Phamarcy-Gasy in Madagascar
CHLOE CHEUK & JOE TSE /// The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: Episode 4/5 & 5/5
VICKY DO /// The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: Episode 3/5
KATHY MAN & DENNIS MAN /// The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: Episode 2/5
LEE KAI CHUNG /// The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: Episode 1/5
JESSICA MYERS /// Producing a Podcast About the City, Safety, and Identities
The Funambulist in Hong Kong - Q&A
The Funambulist in Hong Kong - Sonia Wong
The Funambulist in Hong Kong - Tings Chak
The Funambulist in Hong Kong - Léopold Lambert
The Funambulist in Tokyo - Momoyo Homma
The Funambulist in Tokyo - Christina Yi (incomplete)
CHRISTINA HEATHERTON & JORDAN T. CAMP /// Design & Racism 4: The Inherent Violence of Policing
DONNA MURCH /// Design & Racism 3: History of African American Uprisings from Watts to Ferguson
MABEL O. WILSON /// Design & Racism 2: "Can the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House?"
NACIRA GUÉNIF-SOUILAMAS /// Design & Racism 1: The Design of French Structural Racism
TIMOTHY PERKINS /// Solidarity and Policing of Migrants and Refugees in Northern Paris
The Funambulist: Design & Racism / Alicia Olushola Ajayi
The Funambulist: Design & Racism / Minh-Ha T. Pham
The Funambulist: Design & Racism / Hadeel Khalil Assali
The Funambulist: Design & Racism / Christina Heatherton
The Funambulist: Design & Racism / Questions And Roundtable
SINTHUJAN VARATHARAJAH /// The Refugee Camp: An Extraterritorial Space of Exclusion
MATIJA KRALJ /// Fortress Schengen (Complementing Conversation)
MARJETKA PEZDIRC /// A Conversation from the Walls of Fortress Schengen
NASRIN HIMADA /// Introduction to Prison Abolitionism
MERVE BEDIR /// 2.5 Million Refugees in Turkey: A Few Architectural and Linguistic Considerations
TAYSIR BATNIJI /// On Palestinian (Artistic) Existence
KARIM KATTAN /// Acting in the Central Margin: A Palestinian Art Residency in Jericho
MAWENA YEHOUESSI & STEFFI NJOH MONNY /// Afrofuturism: Constructing Extraterrestrial Blackness
ELENA LOIZIDOU /// Law and Subjectivity: A Conceptual Approach to Disobedience
CONCRETE ACTION /// A Disobedient Platform for Architecture Whistleblowers
ANA DANA BEROŠ /// From the Balkans to Lampedusa: Fortress Europe, Migrants, and Refugees
IVA MARČETIĆ /// The Right to the City: Zagreb's Spatial Politics
MILOŠ KOSEC /// (Hi)stories of Ruins in WWII Slovenia
TAMÁS BODOKY /// The Symbolic and Material Walls of Viktor Orbán's Nationalist Politics
ANA DŽOKIĆ /// Politics of Space and Architecture in Belgrade
MENSUR DEMIR /// Sarajevo: A War that Shaped a City, a City that Shaped a War
SELMA POROBIC /// Forcefully Displaced Bodies in Bosnia: From the War to Contemporary Europe
SADIA SHIRAZI, OLIVIA AHN & MINH-HA T. PHAM /// The Funambulist Magazine Launch at e-flux
BANU BARGU /// Weaponization of Life: Human Shields and Hunger Strikers
LUCIE BACON /// Collecting Migrant Experiences at the Walls of the European Union
YAEL LERER /// Translating Arabic into Hebrew in an Apartheid Country
STÉPHANIE DADOUR /// Architectural Theory and Gender: The Example of the Suburban House
FABIOLA LÓPEZ-DURÁN /// Architecture and Eugenics: Modernist Design as an Orthopedic Apparatus
EMMA TARLO /// Politics of Head Garments: Gandhi Caps and Hijabs
LALEH KHALILI /// The Geopolitics of Maritime Transportation in the Middle East
LIAM YOUNG /// The Geological and Technological Landscape Production of our Cities
ESA STUDENTS /// Crisis Creativity: A School of Architecture on Strike
PHILIPPE THEOPHANIDIS /// State of Exception Cities: 2013 Boston and Istanbul
CAREN KAPLAN /// Before the Drone: Genealogy of Aerial Imagery and its Militarization
MAY AL-IBRASHY /// Confusion or Stupidity in Post-Tahrir Egypt
MANAR MOURSI /// Politics of Street Objects: The 1001 Chairs of Cairo
BETH STRYKER & OMAR NAGATI /// Cairo and the Architecture of Informality
DENA QADDUMI /// Against the Jerusalem Narrative: Spatial Politics of Jaffa-Tel Aviv
RAHEL AIMA & AHMAD MAKIA /// The Politics of the Olfactive Body
Presentation Archipelago - Studio-X Amman Lab Event
ALEX SHAMS /// Five Fragments of the Apartheid Landscape in Palestine
MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI /// Walls, Ground, Atmospheres, and Bodies in Palestine
DROR ETKES /// Monitoring the Occupation: The Israeli Settlements in the West Bank
AHMAD BARCLAY /// Graphic and Information Design as a Political Instrument
HANA SLEIMAN /// Constructing a Palestinian Oral History Archive
LYNE JABRI /// Initiatives for the City: Architectural Activism in Lebanon
CIVIL CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT THE DALIEH OF RAOUCHE IN BEIRUT
OLIVIA SNAIJE /// Keep Your Eye on the Wall
ALEX SHAMS /// Gender Politics in the Iranian Urban Space
ETHEL BARAONA POHL /// Militarization of the Police: A New Paradigm
MOMOYO HOMMA /// "We Have Decided Not to Die": The Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins
ANTONÁDIA BORGES /// The Politics of Space and Time in Brasilia
GUSTAVO CIRIACO /// Dancing Bodies in (Brazilian) Public Space
AXEL LAZZARI /// Political Situation of the Indigenous Populations in Argentina
ALEJANDRO GRIMSON /// The Politics of Borders in South America and Buenos Aires
LILIANA DE SIMONE /// The Architecture of Gender in South America
FRANCISCO DIAZ /// Who Cares for Chilean Cities?
ESTEFANIA VELA /// The Politics of Gender in Mexico
ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ GALVEZ /// The Politics of Space in the City of Mexico
JANETTE KIM & TROY CONRAD THERRIEN /// Introducing ARPA: Applied Research Practices in Architecture
ANN LAURA STOLER /// The Colonial Administration of Bodies and Space
GREG BARTON /// "Islandization" of Military Bases: The Case of Diego Garcia Island
BHAKTI SHRINGARPURE /// From Timbuktu to Fort de France: The Iconic Power of Monuments' Destruction
MIRIAM TICKTIN /// Humane Violence: A Critique of Innocence
ALEXANDER WEHELIYE /// Claiming Humanity: A Black Critique of the Concept of Bare Life
JOSEPH MASCO /// Militarization of Territorial Planning in Cold War USA
A. NAOMI PAIK /// Manufacturing Rightlessness: The Camp as a Legal Fiction
FIONA I. B. NGÔ /// Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York
MIMI THI NGUYEN /// Formulating Outrage: The Language of Political Struggle
NICK CAVERLY /// Economic, Demographic, and Biological Politics of Detroit
Five Articles about Gaza on The Funambulist
MICHELLE MURPHY /// Economization of Life: Part 2: Chemical Infrastructures
MICHELLE MURPHY /// Economization of Life: Part 1: Biopolitical Feminism
TINGS CHAK /// Documented the Undocumented: Carceral Architecture and Migrant Bodies
SOPHIA SEAWELL /// Gendered Violence in Bathrooms, Streets, and Prisons
STUART ELDEN /// Thinking the Volume: Subterranean, Atmospheric, and Oblique Territories
CAMILLE LACADÉE /// Making Films, Making Myths (edited by Camille Lacadée)
KAMAL ARORA /// The Widow Colony in Delhi: Female Bodies as Vessels of Remembrance
DEREK GREGORY /// Mobilizing for War: Targets, Enemies, and Exceptional Legislations
RENISA MAWANI /// The Archive: Fragments and Forces of Indigeneity
GASTÓN GORDILLO /// The Politics of Ruins: What's Hidden Under Rubble?
SARAH MIRK /// The Feminist Comic Strip: From Guantanamo to your Relationship
DEMILIT /// A Weaponized Urbanity: Morning Drift in Militarized Downtown Oakland
KAREN TONGSON /// Queer Suburban Imaginaries
DAVID GISSEN /// On the Non-Greenness of Nature
ALYSABETH ALEXANDER /// Organizing the Resistance Against the Privatization of Cities
MIMI ZEIGER /// Feminism, Participation and Crises in Architecture
SOPHIA AZEB /// The "No-State Solution": Power of Imagination for the Palestinian Struggle
MAHMOUD KESHAVARZ /// What Forms of Politics Are Possible Through Design Today?
ALONDRA NELSON /// The Black Panthers' Struggle Against the American Politics of Health
OLIVIA AHN /// Gender Performativity in the History of Suburban Architecture
GEAN MORENO & ERNESTO OROZA /// A Political & Philosophical Reading of the Systems of Objects
LILIAM DOOLEY /// The Economics and Creativity of the Second-Hand Dress
ADLER GUERRIER /// The Body of the Flaneur
NINA VALERIE KOLOWRATNIK /// The Architect's Expertise in a Judiciary Context
NIKOLAOS PATSOPOULOS /// Architecture and Revolutionary Movements in Russia and Contemporary Europe
PAMELA BROWN /// Debt and Race in American Capitalism
EVE BAILEY /// "The Body is Plastic": Negotiating with Gravity
HANA TAJIMA /// Design of a Public Body: Wearing Hijab in the West
HARJANT GILL /// The Body and its Rites of Passage: Sikhism and Masculinity in Indian Punjab
LUCIA JALÓN OYARZUN /// Subjectivity of the Map: Cartographying With the Body
MARC-ANTOINE MATHIEU /// Graphic Novels and Borgesian Labyrinths
MARTIN BYRNE /// Introduction to Philip K. Dick
LIDUAM PONG /// Power of the Book: Clandestine Libraries in Cuba & Infinite Ones in Borges’s Work
MADELINE GINS /// Special Archival Podcast: How To “Not To Die”
MORGAN N. /// Machiavellian Fortresses and the Virtue of the Sovereign
SARAH CHOUKAH /// Gilbert Simondon and Bio-Hacking
FREDERIC TCHENG /// Normative Processes and their Transgression in Queer Cinema
ERIN MANNING /// What Can the Body Do?
MICHAEL BADU /// What Is a Mosque Builder Today?
LUCY FINCHETT-MADDOCK /// Eminent Domain vs. Immanent Domain: The Law and its Spatial Practices
DANIEL FERNANDEZ PASCUAL /// Blurred Territories: Sovereignty Claims and Techno-Logical Legislations
EILEEN JOY /// Publishing Manifesto: The Medieval Archipelago
ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS /// Law, Space and Bodies
DAVID GARCIA /// Architectures of Quarantine & Containment
MIMI THI NGUYEN /// Epidermalization of the Public Body: Clothing and Politics