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

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@WomblesDream @WomblesDream so they've just reversed the "no rucksacks" policy.. water bottle cap gate all over again - introduce a stupid policy without consultation, everyone complains, do a 180 🙄 you'd think there'd be a better way for a fan-owned club to explore such changes, wouldn't you

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@AFCWimbledon missed the first 25mins today thanks to the club's total communications failure over the new bag size policy. Which apparently only applies to some of the ground anyway?! How hard wd it be to do a phased introduction ffs?@WomblesDream

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And I'd love someone to tell me what the security risk posed by a normal-sized rucksack is anyway? Shite welcome back to Plough Lane for the new season, thanks very much. Cc the good folks at @WomblesDream

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@CoximusPrime1 @Tom_afcw @AFCWimbledon @WomblesDream So you genuinely think every single season ticket holder / fan should visit the Dons official twitter account before every single home game, *just in case* there's some dumb new rule? Again, some people do not spend their whole lives on social media, astonishingly

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@CoximusPrime1 @Tom_afcw @AFCWimbledon @WomblesDream https://t.co/FgeENGHolP

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@Vidz1613830 @AFCWimbledon @WomblesDream I said to the head of security, "have you been turning away many other fans with normal rucksacks?" His exact words were "oh my god, so many". So there's your answer on how well this was communicated

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@Vidz1613830 @AFCWimbledon @WomblesDream I said to the head of security, "have you been turning away many other fans with normal rucksacks?" His exact words were "oh my god, so many". So there's your answer on how well this was communicated

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@CoximusPrime1 @AFCWimbledon @WomblesDream 🤷 dunno about you mate, but some of us have better things to do with our time than check the Dons twitter before every game on the offchance this month's security firm have made up a new set of rules

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@mrevgenylebedev @joshi should Joshi be insisting his staff include a desperately embarrassing photo of himself fawning over a celebrity every week? is that how you do journalism? thx

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@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?

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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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@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

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@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!

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[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

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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 🫡