Dan Hancox

Politics, music, cities, food, Spain, @ The Guardian, Observer, VICE, LRB, NYT. Co-host @CursedObjectsUK. New book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

🟡 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! 🟡

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

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

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

@arecular @doctorow Hahaha yeppp

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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?

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

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

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

@CordeliaJ Funnily enough, the only time I've ever ever been out in Notting Hill - for the stag do of a friend who went to Winchester - Hugh Grant was there in the bar too 😂 admittedly this was a decade ago though so your point stands

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

@EoghanGilmartin @Pamplonaactual ahhhh omg, thanks for sending!

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@hulkingbrute hahaha perfect combo

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@hulkingbrute lolol. big picture... not about the limes themselves but what they do to drivers

[Kate Clements @KHClem]

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!

[Pavan Sodhan @PSodhan]

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!

1/5

[Postcapitalist Assemblages @PostCapAssem]

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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

[Postcapitalist Assemblages @PostCapAssem]

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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
https://t.co/Td68V0CQQ1

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

@JayneEEgerton @VersoBooks Thanks for having me on again Jayne! Lovely to see you and Laurie, not to mention the privilege of appearing on one of my favourite programmes 🫡

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

I will also be discussing MULTITUDES on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed today at 3.30pm. You can get the book here: https://t.co/BBh5nAfdmy

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@oscarrickettnow @VersoBooks thanks Oscar!!

[Oscar Rickett @oscarrickettnow]

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

[Kate Knowles @pennycenturyy]

Really looking forward to chatting with @danhancox about his latest book at @vocebooks on Tuesday! Come along, tix are only £3.

[Voce Books @vocebooks]

🗣️ 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

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

Normal conversation between two real people

[Dan Hancox @danhancox]

"Eloquent and soulful... sparklingly written" - thanks @Alex_Niven for this excellent embrace of the crowd, reviewing my latest book Multitudes in @tribunemagazine https://t.co/V3PhgNbCiN

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

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