Hannah Proctor
Hannah Proctor is the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She teaches history at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is currently working on a new project on the long 1990s and the ‘end of history’. She recently organised the conference Political Pathologies: Psychic Life between resistance and restraint, and is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective. She is currently interested in revenge.
What we wrote when Hannah took part in Episode 11, 2024:
Hannah Proctor works at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She is a committee member of Red Sunday School.
Artist Events
On the Necessity of Psychic Militancy
Lara Sheehi Hannah Proctor
Lara explodes the naïve claim to neutrality of normative psychiatric care. Her concept of ‘psychic intrusions’ helps to identify the ways power seeks to mould the consciousness of the people it subjugates. Her notion of ‘psychic militancy’ maps the resistance to such attempts.
Four Endings to Begin
Masa Nazzal River MacAskill Hannah Proctor Gracie Mae Bradley Joel White
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.