hannah proctor
@hhnnccnnll
I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). Marx Freud Karaoke
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 (!)
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)
Earlier this week I went to Paris to see the Jacques-Louis David exhibition at the Louvre but the Louvre workers were on strike (solidarity!) so no David but I remembered I once wrote something on Charlotte Corday that talks a bit about The Death of Marat hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/charlotte-...
I knew I'd heard of Alex Davies Jones before novaramedia.com/2025/06/12/p...
For the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social Victoria Browne, Rahul Rao and I interviewed Sophie Lewis about their new book Enemy Feminisms and they gave some very interesting and thoughtful answers to our questions www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...
Just came across this anecdote about a therapist in Moscow in 1993 - wild analysis indeed
“The present condition of the world, if accepted as it is, if approached with anything short of determined impatience to change it utterly, renders every value meaningless” - John Berger I’m so obsessed with this book 🔥
4. E. C. Feiss, ‘Minor compositions’ on Marina’s many collaborations www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/mino...
3. Daniel Spaulding, ‘Total art and mimetic subsumption’ www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/tota...
2. Zoe Sutherland, ‘Against running in place’ www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/agai...
Dossier of four pieces on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt 💜🐚🦔🦇 1. Ray Brassier, ‘Crystal drills’ www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/crys...
re-listening to this radio show we made ten years ago - it's about Asja Lacis, Walter Benjamin in Moscow, theatre, puppets, toys, dreams, guillotines, revolutionary childhood etc etc - still one of the favourite things I've ever been involved in making soundcloud.com/radio-lacis-1
Ray Brassier on hope and despair (saw someone else sharing this recently and just went to find it the book Bad Feelings)
not totally sure why Marx is Santa or what any of this has to do with therapy but I'm into it
it's fun when you stumble across a website that looks like ye olde internet
“The sparrow is a true proletarian bird” - so many intense animal descriptions in Platonov 🪶
Just started Chevengur by Platonov and it’s already exceeding my very high expectations🪱🪱🪱
so obsessed with this fact about the Lucio Fulci film A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin because if you've seen the film it is so very obviously not real dogs