Join us for our virtual monthly reading group!
This virtual reading group will be led by Myriam Amri. We will explore Follow the Money, issue 63 of The Funambulist magazine, edited by Myriam.
The issue examines money as an object central to our political struggles. We work against the claim that the economic system is opaque and removed from popular politics. Instead, we use money as an entry point to understand how financial and economic systems operate, insisting that they must be made legible in order to be resisted. We follow the money to examine global finance, currency wars, and imperial projects, as much as the monetary objects of our everyday lives, from cash to receipts.
Together, we will read and discuss excerpts from the issue on methods to follow the money, on the financial logics of the war in Sudan and the colonization of Palestine, or on the colonial power of currencies like the dollar or the Franc CFA. In this session, we will also play the game You've Got Yourselves a Revolution, Now What? to explore how revolutionary horizons can centre material struggles and how to create new monetary imaginaries.
A Google Meet link and PDFs of the issue and game will be sent to all those who sign-up ahead of the event courtesy of The Funambulist. Please subscribe to the magazine to support the important work they do to connect anti-colonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles across the world.
Tickets are Pay What You Can; all proceeds will help us continue funding the work we do. Please note that timings are in British Summer Time.
Schedule (BST)
2.00pm - Introduction
2.10 pm - Group reading (Issue Intro) + Discussion
2.50 pm - BREAK
3.00pm - Group reading (Excerpts) + Discussion
3.40pm - You've Got Yourselves a Revolution, Now What? Game
4.20pm - Final reflections
4.30pm - Close
This event is part of our monthly reading series. Through mid-month gatherings we collectively read and study decolonial ideas and history, building community along the way. Each month we will explore pressing questions from a decolonial lens, offering space to think critically about the challenge of dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today.
Myriam Amri is an anthropologist, writer, and visual artist from Tunis. Her work investigates contemporary capitalism from North Africa outward. Her current book project is an ethnography of Tunisia’s national currency, using money to tell a different story of revolution and its disillusions. Her creative works use ethnographic, material, or archival methods to explore the quotidian in times of ruptures and crises. She is the co-founder of the literary collective Asameena and holds a PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.
The Funambulist Magazine operates at the crossroads of architecture, academia, and activism by formulating spatial approaches to anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles around the world. With each issue, our aim is to develop ideas, visuals, and maps in service of these fights to expand our shared political imaginaries. By examining the networks of relations we inhabit, the magazine acts as a platform to nourish internationalist solidarities that learn with each other. We consider each geography to be a knowledge-production center, from which we are invited to think and imagine with a pluriverse of voices. Subscribe here.
The Decolonial Centre is a political education platform committed to spreading anti-colonial and decolonial perspectives on history, social theory, and current affairs. We deliver our work via our Newscast episodes, Decolonial Encycopaedia, and community events. By fostering solidarity and collaboration, we aim to amplify the powerful movements at the forefront of challenging and dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today. Our vision is to help inspire a new intergenerational cohort of activists that pushes for systems change and create links between communities in struggle.
(Header image: Myriam Amri)