Hannah Proctor

Hannah Proctor is a historian of radical psychiatry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (2024)

What is Lea Ypi Trying to Achieve?

Hannah Proctorartreview.com27 October 2025

The philosopher’s latest book encapsulates the broader challenges involved in reconstructing the warmth of a life from cold archival fragments

Controlled Explosions: Critiquing Mike Nelson’s Unpopulated Worlds

Hannah Proctorartreview.com17 July 2025

Nelson’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ once more explores themes of construction and destruction. How many times can he mine this world?

‘Not Only Cringey but Politically Troubling’: Paul Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi, Reviewed

Hannah Proctorartreview.com21 March 2025

The philosopher’s reflections on his own privileged experience of the COVID-19 pandemic range from the bizarre to the frankly obscene

A scene from the COVID-19 pandemic. Chernivtsi, Ukraine, May 2020 © CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, Photo: Mstyslav Chernov

Fredric Jameson, 1934-2024: In Search of an Ending

Hannah Proctorartreview.com30 September 2024

The Marxist literary theorist revealed how cultural artefacts could illuminate the ideological underpinnings of everyday life