h nn h p
@hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024).
Marx/Freud/karaoke
Marx/Freud/karaoke
Pinned
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@hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
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“Worries: a mental illness characteristic of the age of capitalism.”
Walter Benjamin, ‘Capitalism as Religion’ (1921)
Walter Benjamin, ‘Capitalism as Religion’ (1921)
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" 🐙
January 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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" 🐙
Co-wrote an essay on ‘Innocence’ for this Special Issue
Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism
January 26, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Co-wrote an essay on ‘Innocence’ for this Special Issue
congrats - pls tell me who I should commission to review it for RP :)
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
congrats - pls tell me who I should commission to review it for RP :)
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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
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-...
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/charlotte-...
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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-...
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/charlotte-...
Balzac says log off
January 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Balzac says log off
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‘We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness,’ writes Akshi Singh in a new column reflecting on the book ‘A Philosophy of Shame’ by Frédéric Gros.
Read the full article: artreview.com/a-philosophy...
Read the full article: artreview.com/a-philosophy...
‘A Philosophy of Shame’: What’s Wrong With Everyone?
We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness
artreview.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
‘We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness,’ writes Akshi Singh in a new column reflecting on the book ‘A Philosophy of Shame’ by Frédéric Gros.
Read the full article: artreview.com/a-philosophy...
Read the full article: artreview.com/a-philosophy...
listening to a man on the train explain to his silent gf why one safdie brother is good and one safdie brother is bad at great length
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
listening to a man on the train explain to his silent gf why one safdie brother is good and one safdie brother is bad at great length
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nothing infuriates the average paid political commentator more than the fact that every 15 year old baby leftist doing earnestly naive posts about 'Amerikkka' at any point in the last 30 years has better analysis with a sounder grounding in the facts than they do.
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
nothing infuriates the average paid political commentator more than the fact that every 15 year old baby leftist doing earnestly naive posts about 'Amerikkka' at any point in the last 30 years has better analysis with a sounder grounding in the facts than they do.
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wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
Rub It Better ‘Til It Bleeds
The Year in Mental Health: From the datafication of therapy to the ‘crisis’ of overdiagnosis, it seemed everyone in 2025 was doing just fine
artreview.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
Rub It Better ‘Til It Bleeds
The Year in Mental Health: From the datafication of therapy to the ‘crisis’ of overdiagnosis, it seemed everyone in 2025 was doing just fine
artreview.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
wrote about ‘The Year in Mental Health’ @artreview.bsky.social
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
“If there now seems to be a broad cultural consensus that everybody hurts, that everybody ‘has’ mental health – even men! – there is little agreement on where the misery comes from or how to make it stop.”
artreview.com/rub-it-bette...
really love that Die My Love is about a writer with writers’ block who doesn’t even seem to own a laptop
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
really love that Die My Love is about a writer with writers’ block who doesn’t even seem to own a laptop
I want to read an extremely long, elegantly written and overly theoretical essay about Bella Freud's podcast Fashion Neurosis please thank you
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I want to read an extremely long, elegantly written and overly theoretical essay about Bella Freud's podcast Fashion Neurosis please thank you
Agitprop Cabaret!
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book launch: Thomas Muntzer: dramatic depiction of the German Peasants’ War
As part of Joey Simons' solo exhibition 'Their Theatre and Ours' at Market Gallery
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Agitprop Cabaret!
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
yeah it’s great - very cool thing to get in post
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
yeah it’s great - very cool thing to get in post
Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯
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If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK.
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK.
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263...
I went to China in early September and kept accidentally seeing and reading things that all seemed to relate to the Second World War in some way - I tried to write about it
'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025'
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/world-anti...
'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025'
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/world-anti...
October 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I went to China in early September and kept accidentally seeing and reading things that all seemed to relate to the Second World War in some way - I tried to write about it
'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025'
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/world-anti...
'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025'
hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/world-anti...
this essay by Akshi Singh for @Parapraxis_Mag is so good!
On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression...
parapraxismagazine.com/articles/unc...
On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression...
parapraxismagazine.com/articles/unc...
Unconscious Terrorists — Parapraxis
Psychoanalysis on trial Akshi Singh
parapraxismagazine.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
this essay by Akshi Singh for @Parapraxis_Mag is so good!
On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression...
parapraxismagazine.com/articles/unc...
On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression...
parapraxismagazine.com/articles/unc...
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Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"
August 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"
August 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.