Politics, music, cities, food, Spain, @ The Guardian, Observer, VICE, LRB, NYT. Co-host @CursedObjectsUK. New book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World
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10 Sep 2024
🟡 Reminder that I am now available to discuss football crowds, riot crowds, carnival crowds, protest crowds, crowd policing, crowd behaviour, mobs etc - and if you want to review MULTITUDES, please get in touch! 🟡
14 Aug 2024
It's here! 🥳 'MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World' is published @VersoBooks 22 October 2024. Get in touch for review copies / interview requests / commissions / talks / podcasts etc
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My favourite of the web of deranged 'Yookay' myths is the idea that London is dirtier now than it was. It is literally the cleanest it has been in my entire lifetime! That's what gentrification is, and does. But then apparently the poster is Lebanese, so how would he know?
16 Aug 2025
Isn’t that London is now an unliveable hellhole, it is still Basically Fine in many parts - is more that it is undergoing a process of ‘enshittification’ where quality of life on certain metrics gets slowly worse over time. So you can tolerate it but things are worse than before
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2 May 2025
I’ve curated many exhibitions but never thought I would be in one..!
Congrats to @KasiaTee & @danhancox for their @CursedObjectsUK exhibition about museum shops at the @peltzgallery. Some of the museum pens which I’ve been collecting since I was a child are featured. Go see it!
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12 Apr 2025
Echoing @Jodi7768 recommendation to buy @danhancox superb new book exploring how the popular perception of crowds being inherently violent is based on 19th-century pseudoscience and why elites are terrified of mass social movements, which I reviewed for @BooksinFive below!
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Drawing inspiration from Dan Hancox in Multitudes, we see that isolation isn’t a bug — it’s a deliberate design to control us. The forces that profit from our atomization have long underestimated the power of collective celebration. #ResistAtomization
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17 Mar 2025
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"I Believe in the Eternal Life of Carnival" isn’t just a statement — it’s a manifesto. In times of crisis and isolation, joy becomes a radical act of resistance. #CarnivalSpirit #CollectiveJoy
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25 Feb 2025
I will also be discussing MULTITUDES on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed today at 3.30pm. You can get the book here: hive.co.uk/Product/Dan-Hanco…
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25 Feb 2025
Cannot recommend this new @VersoBooks book by @danhancox highly enough.
There is something fascinating on every page. I have been wearily, bitterly jealous of Dan’s excellent journalism for years and this has only added to that
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13 Feb 2025
Really looking forward to chatting with @danhancox about his latest book at @vocebooks on Tuesday! Come along, tix are only £3.
12 Feb 2025
🗣️ WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Gather at Voce Books this February as writer @danhancox takes us to football matches, raves & riots, introducing his new book on mass assembly MULTITUDES: HOW CROWDS MADE THE MODERN WORLD.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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12 Feb 2025
🗣️ WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Gather at Voce Books this February as writer @danhancox takes us to football matches, raves & riots, introducing his new book on mass assembly MULTITUDES: HOW CROWDS MADE THE MODERN WORLD.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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11 Feb 2025
Normal conversation between two real people
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6 Feb 2025
"Eloquent and soulful... sparklingly written" - thanks @Alex_Niven for this excellent embrace of the crowd, reviewing my latest book Multitudes in @tribunemagazine tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/in-…
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5 Feb 2025
Birds are very cautiously singing outside and the new Tribune is out, burnished with one of the all-time classic covers. I reviewed @danhancox’s excellent Multitudes for it
5 Feb 2025
Our latest issue, ‘Gastropolitics’, is out now.
From English food riots to Polish socialist milk bars and farmers’ uprisings in India, read Alex Niven, Juliet Jacques, Owen Hatherley and Fran Newton.
A full year of print for just £20: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe?c…
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26 Jan 2025
A great discussion of @danhancox's new book 'Multitudes' on @Sobremesacast here
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25 Jan 2025
🗣️ WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Gather at Voce Books this February as writer @danhancox takes us to football matches, raves & riots, introducing his new book on mass assembly MULTITUDES: HOW CROWDS MADE THE MODERN WORLD.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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13 Jan 2025
"The nameless oppressed are who Benjamin wanted us to honour: the many tens of thousands of civilians killed in Gaza and in Sudan. The many more who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean, or beneath the crenellations of Fortress Europe" @danhancox
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13 Jan 2025
Magnificent piece by @danhancox in @ft on Walter Benjamin
“It is more difficult to honour the memory of the anonymous than that of the renowned. Historical construction is devoted to the memory of the anonymous.”
There is still work to be done!
on.ft.com/4agi8yz
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13 Jan 2025
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by @danhancox -
“Champions the erotic, capitalism-subverting, ego-transcending crowd against those who...have striven to batter the life out of it.” – Stuart Jeffries
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13 Jan 2025
Belatedly caught up with @danhancox’s excellent piece on the last days of Walter Benjamin on.ft.com/3Ce8TSE
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Dan Hancox (@danhancox):
'The last days of Walter Benjamin'
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