Three essays were developed as part of A World of Lines: From Third World Solidarities to Postsocialist Globalism, a discursive programme organised by Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow Ho Rui An, which explores the shifting geopolitical imaginaries within what was known as the Third World during the historical period that began with the end of empire and culminated in the late 70s with the foreclosure of socialism as a mass political project.