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Hannah Proctor

Links
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) Red Sunday School website

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.

Hannah smiles softly, head tilted gently to the side. They have bobbed brown hair and wear a black blazer and top

Artist Events

11 November 2026, 19:00

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.

 

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
Hannah Proctor stands on stage in front of a lectern delivering their performed reading. Behind Hannah is a project image of a crowd in a smoke filled city street, giving the impression of a conflict or war environment.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

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.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It