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I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). Marx Freud Karaoke

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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 13h
My short piece is mostly about Freud's correspondence with the novelist Arnold Zweig because I'd remembered they'd had an exchange about communism but when I read their letters I discovered they corresponded much more about Zionism after Zweig fled to Palestine and soon lost his Zionist illusions
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 13h
I contributed to this roundtable in @parapraxismag.bsky.social responding to a passage in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930) that begins “The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils.” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
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“The communists believe…” — Parapraxis
The Specter Haunting Psychoanalysis A DOSSIER OF TEXTS BY ELENA COMAY DEL JUNCO, MAX FOX, YAHYA MADRA, HANNAH PROCTOR, GHALYA SAADAWI, NICA SIEGEL, JULIANA SPAHR, AND GABRIEL TUPINAMBÁ, GATHERED BY...
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"To begin, then, a proposition: there is no anti-Zionist idea, there is only anti-Zionist praxis." Nasser Abourahme, 'Stones Are the First Words We Speak: Anti-Zionism as Praxis' @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
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Stones Are the First Words We Speak — Parapraxis
Anti-Zionism as Praxis nasser abourahme
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...
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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde
Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have a vague interest in the history of attachment theory now it's become so meme-ified and I've read a bit by/about John Bowlby before but I did not expect it to have anything to do with him learning about how ducks and geese feed ducklings and goslings 🦆🪿
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
well, that's one!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can't be bothered to check if or to what extent this is true nor will I hazard a guess as to why this might be the case but my ambient sense is that only (or certainly mostly) men have reviewed Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics book and that's both kind of funny and/or depressing
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Giving a talk at Marxism in Culture in London on October 16th It's about Sarah Kane's 1995 play Blasted and is first thing I'll have presented from my new book project in progress, which is a kind of cultural history of the 'end of history' www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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Marxism in Culture: Hannah Proctor
‘Darkness. Light.’: Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Bosnia, and the Long 1990s
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jean McCrindle recalling the atmosphere of the Communist Party of Great Britain in and around 1956 (she left, her father stayed) Love a bit of orthodox Marxist Freud hating - so much weird stuff for a psychoanalyst to work with here ha
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is great: Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social reading Esmat Elhalaby’s 'Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization' to counter Pankaj Mishra's equivocations in 'The World After Gaza'
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
p. 103!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a really great funded PhD at Strathclyde on 'unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948' - if you have any questions about applying feel free to get in touch!
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Come & do a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith at Strathclyde! We are looking for a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948. #histmed #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...
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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
new issue! lots of good stuff in here... I was very pleased Danny agreed to write about Peter Weiss. I also asked Esther Leslie to review a book on Disney for this issue that we decided to give the title 'The Mickey Mouse Industrial Complex'
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Aging philosophers, ailing writers, wasted figures, thwarted mourners, fraying kinships, barren mothers, frozen landscapes, tattered genres, failed revolutions, shrunken stages." Rebecca Comay writes great lists (from this great essay On Persistence) www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...
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On Persistence - Notes - e-flux
Rebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
thanks Ewan! Looking forward to reading your new one when it's out.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s weird how - when the press goes looking for racism in Britain in the 2020s - the only places it can ever be found are in left wing politics, public services, unionised professions and academia. Isn’t that remarkable, given what you can see and hear every day.
Daily Mail • @DailyMail • 8h
Fury as doctors pledge to fight against NHS stance on anti-Semitism and pro-Palestinian badges
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sorry to miss this! Looks great
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
ANTIGONE IN AUTUMN A piece on Antigone, 1970s West German cinema, state repression, right-wing media, Brecht, Straub-Huillet, the law, Seamus Heaney, sisters, solidarity, injustice, Mahmoud Darwish, resistance, birds, and the recent Filton case in the UK hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/antigone-i...
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Antigone in autumn
Antigone and 1970s West German cinema
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
thanks for coming!
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Milngavie Columbo is an entertaining and eviscerating short film. It satirises the cultural and economic damage big business and political leaders are visiting on Glasgow. Get to the Govan Project Space whilst it’s on!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
'​Psycho-Politics: Authoritarianism and the Return of the Repressed' looking forward to this event in Amsterdam next week - I'll be giving a paper on histories of anticommunist theories of 'left authoritarianism' alongside Alenka Zupančič www.spui25.nl/programma/ps...
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​Psycho-Politics: Authoritarianism and the Return of the Repressed​
To what extent can psychoanalysis and critical social psychology help us understand the current political conjuncture, where rising fascisms around the world increasingly appear as a kind of “return o...
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've actually had a long and ambivalent relationship with her work, which I definitely don't think is terrible (even if the sentences I quote here are pretty ridiculous) - anyway hope she's not on bluesky 🤐
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
many months after I read her new book and went to a launch where I asked her a question it was brought to my attention that Chris Kraus copied and pasted a tweet I wrote about her in 2018 into the novel but deleted part of the thing I quoted her as saying (!)
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So at this wonderful event yesterday, we learned from Nigel Fabb (one of the organisers of The Linguistics of Writing) that he bought a 'The Linguistics of Writing Venue' sign from the AA after the event (see image below) & sent it to Derrida & Derrida wrote back & said he had put it in his garden
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If you’re in Glasgow next week, this is at Strathclyde on 4 June, organized by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social and Fearghus Roulston www.eventbrite.com/e/writingre-...
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Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
the only thing he seems to believe fervently is that he should be the Prime Minister
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Here, from a lovely tribute by Luke Roberts, is a J.H. Prynne opinion I wholeheartedly share www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...
When we got there and he was parking he reversed hard into another car. I pointed this out, but he just said: Bumpers, Luke! They're called bumpers! It's what they're for!, laughing like a maniac.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
yeah didn't he go on Desert Island Discs twice and the first time it was Orange Juice and the second time it was idk Snow Patrol or something
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I can't decide if the bizarre 😐 reaction of Starmer to this is a) the result of being told for years that people viscerally hating him showed that he was actually doing everything right and is actually very clever so even now when that's so very obviously been disastrous he's still 😐 or b)
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
it’s Holly Bruce MSP for Glasgow Southside!!!!!!!!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
POLITICAL PATHOLOGIES: PSYCHIC LIFE BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND RESTRAINT University of Strathclyde, June 25-26 I'm organizing a two day conference on psychopolitical things at the end of June in Glasgow - come along! More details and list of speakers here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/political-...
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Political pathologies: Psychic life between resistance and restraint
A two day conference exploring political approaches to psychic life.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...
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Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🎊
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Yep :/
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Depressing news This piece by Hailey Maxwell on the People's Palace is great - "The managed decline and privatisation of cultural and civic heritage is entangled with the wilful disintegration of communal ways of living more generally." www.thedrouth.org/on-peoples-p...
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On Peoples’ Palaces by Hailey Maxwell – The Drouth
The Drouth Online is Scotland’s weekly web journal for literature, art, politics and informed critical commentary.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I tried to explain that while I do get why people on the left are drawn to self help books and techniques and while I know that probably I should just stfu I just find it all makes me want to scream / turn into Adorno tribunemag.co.uk/2025/02/comr...
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Comrades Help Yourselves
Leftists seeking to change the world are increasingly also trying to change themselves via self-help frameworks for emotional and romantic improvement. But is this variety of literature more symptom t...
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Robert Glück 🍟🌭🍝🍦🍕🕳️
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki
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Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
RP2.20 is out now! - Fanon-Tosquelles dossier - Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine - Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California - Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries - Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more... www.radicalphilosophy.com
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Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026)
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
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Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
love to have the most awful and embarrassing MP imaginable
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Wow sounds amazing - hope it gets commissioned!
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
lovely metaphor from Eric Hobsbawm describing how Francis Fukuyama revised his pronouncements about the 'end of history' between 1989 and 1992 - "the notorious thesis from which he now appears to retreat like an octopus amid clouds of his own ink" 🐙
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Co-wrote an essay on ‘Innocence’ for this Special Issue
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
congrats - pls tell me who I should commission to review it for RP :)
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