05220 2200505 4500 10435 2402-5895 10435 NUMP 20230120a2015 m y0frey50 ba eng FR mg|z||||||| The Funambulist N°24 NUMP Léopold Lambert Politics of Space and Bodies. Politiques de l'espace et des corps. Futurisms Paris The Funambulist Jul–Aug 2019 Couv.Ill.Coul. 60 p. 21 x 29.5 Textes en anglais Bimestriel Imagining the future often appears as the luxury of those who have the time to do so. It is, indeed, a temporal battle and futurists like the ones featured throughout this issue have fought to gain the time to imagine futures where the political struggles of the present have significantly altered the trajectories of violence currently at work. Ayham Jabr offers us a powerful artwork, “The Guardian of Life” for our cover. Rasheedah Phillips shares with us Afrofuturist keys to “dismantle the Master’s clock” and the imperial notion of linear time. Sophia Azeb imagines what Palestinianness will be when Palestine is free. Suzanne Kite calls for a decolonial Indigenous Artificial Intelligence in the context of Turtle Island (North America). Mahmoud Othman reflects on how reality sometimes transcends (science) fiction, through the Egyptian Revolution that occurred one year after he published a novel dramatizing it. Jessica “Coco” Hansell provides a personal account on the Māori futures of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Tarek Lakhrissi, adrienne maree brown, and Melanie West all describe in their own way (through self-reflection, fiction, or drawing) the inherent futurities in queerness. Roanne Moodley tells us a story about “twinning” monuments between France and Reunion Island. Miriam Hillawi Abraham designs a video game offering a critique on how futurisms are at times used by self-serving actors. Lastly, Kordae Jatafa Henry dramatizes a vision of a personified Congo that has won its self-determination over the extraction of its precious resources. These visions of the futures don’t always speak to each other; yet the generosity of their premises allow them to exist simultaneously with one another, even when they do not grow from what they learn from each other. They fundamentally part from “solutions” and reforms engineered by the technocrats of a system that pretend to address the violence, produced and capitalized on by itself. They refuse even, the premise of futures that would not be revolutionary, that would not ask for the moon or even place a Palestinian flag on it (cf. Larissa Sansour’s A Space Exodus, 2009). But futurisms are not always about hope. Their visions are not wishful thinking or dreamy fables about the possibility of “better” futures. They are instead a manifestation of tactical optimism; a constructivist envisioning that gives itself the means to exist through its very own formulation. Because, if it is true that “no change for the good ever happens without it being imagined first” as Puerto Rican poet Martin Espada (2016) writes, then our imagination must be seen as the political weapon that it is. As usual, our News from the Fronts section takes on current political struggles in the world: Sudan’s Revolution (Reem Abbas), the Hong Kong massive protests (Sampson Wong), the fight of the Uyghur diaspora (Dilnur Reyhan), and the ambiguous relationship of the Swiss feminist strike with new racist laws in Lausanne (Anouk Essyad). Léopold Lambert Paris N°1 (Septembre 2015) The Funambulist https://thefunambulist.net/ 2402-5895 Léopold Lambert Paris The Funambulist 2402-5895 Jul–Aug 2019 N°24 Afrofuturism & Non-Linear Time Afrofuturisme et temporalité non linéaire 28620 Short Fiction Nouvelles Littérature 28621 Indigenous Futures Les futurs autochtones 28622 Envisionning a Free Palestine Penser et concevoir une Palestine libre 28623 Queer Futurity Les futurs Queers 28624 Egypt, Revolution and Science-Fiction L’Égypte, la révolution et la science-fiction 28625 Aotearoa Futurism Le futurisme d’Aotearoa Nouvelle-Zélande New Zealand 28626 Rédacteur en chef Lambert Léopold 19827 710 Philipps Rasheedah 28627 710 Brown Adrienne Maree 28628 710 Kite Suzanne 28629 710 Azeb Sophia 19880 710 Lakhrissi Tarek 28630 710 Osman Mahmoud 28631 710 Hansell Jessica "coco" 28632 Assistant(e) El Hakim Nadia 28326 Assistant(e) Que Carol 28590 Assistant(e) Clark Sara 28633 Responsable scientifique Nzuzi Waco Margarida 28605 FR FR-751131015 20230120 AFNOR TN 32Bis ABA https://thefunambulist.net/ https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/24-futurisms 0 0 0 2026-11-05 7989 32BIS 32BIS Salle de lecture 007751 2026-11-05 7653 PER FUN 24 0 NUMP PER_FUN_24_000000000000000 Don The Funambulist 0 2026-11-05