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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Gender, Sexuality and Race’s Performativity in Paris...
The 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning by Jennie Livingston shows an important aspect of African-American and Latino gay and transgender life in New York in the 1980s: the balls. Organized in Harlem,...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// The Cultural Complexity of a Wearable Object: Leila...
Hana Tajima, a designer that creates apparels that include hijab for some of them, and not for some others (courtesy of the artist) In 2004, the French government presided by Jacques Chirac designed a...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// The Young Sikh, his Hair and the Turban: Roots of Love...
Still from the film Roots of Love by Harjant Gill (2011) This article follows the previous one about the hijab as a complex cultural wearable object. This time, a similar complexity is examined in...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// The Performativity of Gender as Expressed by the...
Exemplary photograph on Diane Torr’s “Man for a Day” workshop’s website The principle of the drag king consists for a body recognized normatively as a woman to embody archetypical male characteristics...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// Gendered Clothing Apartheid: A Political History of...
Photographs from the exhibition “A Queer History of Fashion” at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology (2013) / Suit worn by Marlene Dietrich – Skirt by Jean-Paul Gaultier This article is based...
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# LAW /// Fashion Forensic: The Cloth as (Pre)judicial Evidence
Trayvon Martin’s hoodie shown as a piece of evidence by the prosecution at George Zimmerman’s trial (July 2013) It has now been a few articles that I attempt to describe how clothing has such an...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 51 /// Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of...
Comme des Garçons AW 2010/2011 Today’s Funambulist Paper complements well yesterday’s launch of the eighth volume of the Funambulist Pamphlets dedicated to the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins since...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// The Clothing Semiotics of the Indian Independence Struggle
Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose (wearing a Gandhi cap) in 1938 Thanks to Mimi Thi Nguyen, I got to read Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India (University of Chicago Press, 1996) by...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 24 /// The Economics and Creativity of the Second-Hand Dress...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// The Body at War: Corporeal Resistance and Torture in...
Still from Hunger (2008) by Steve McQueen In 1976, the British government withdrew the status of political prisoner to every detainees who had been imprisoned for having taken part in the Northern...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// Anticipating Police, Discriminated Bodies, and Designed...
Trayvon Martin’s hoodie as a piece of evidence during George Zimmerman’s trial (Gary W. Green / EPA / June 25, 2013) Text written last year for a publication that finally refused it /// Our bodies do...
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# SPINOZA /// Spinozist Body/Terrain: We Ignore Where the Body Stops
Otto Lilienthal in 1893 A good way to articulate thoughts consists in a dialogue with friends; that is what I intend to do here, by basing my reflection about the Spinozist body on the article written...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Political and Administrative Capture of Female Bodies
“In public space, no one can wear an outfit dissimulating the face. (“Law of October 11, 2010)” We can no longer allow others to turn our mucous membranes, our skin, all our sensitive areas into...
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# LAW /// Police and Violence: Taking the Notion of “Law Enforcement” Seriously
Protesters in Ukraine holding mirrors to show the police their own reflection / Photograph extracted from the lecture ““How to Dress up a Police?,” by Ethel Baraona Pohl at the seminar Missions and...
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# LAW /// The Speech of Things: Review of Forensis for The New Inquiry
Assistant state attorneys John Guy, left, and Bernie de la Rionda, right, display the hooded sweatshirt worn by Trayvon Martin the night he was shot by George Zimmerman. (Credit: AP) The Speech of...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 61 /// Profiling Surfaces by Mimi Thi Nguyen
If you enjoy as much as me reading papers by Mimi Thi Nguyen (see our two conversations for Archipelago in 2013 and 2014), this 61st Funambulist Paper (and penultimate of the second series) will be my...
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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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