Julian Hanna
@julianisland.bsky.social
Prof of Culture Stuff. Author of Island (Bloomsbury) & The Manifesto Handbook (Zero).
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ISLAND is a year old today!! 🏝️
To celebrate here’s a recent photo of the author taken by his kid on an old East German Praktica.
If you’ve read ISLAND, thanks for reading! (If not, there’s still time!)
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
To celebrate here’s a recent photo of the author taken by his kid on an old East German Praktica.
If you’ve read ISLAND, thanks for reading! (If not, there’s still time!)
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Still on my feet! Losing my voice. Hybrid teaching is a killer 💀 but luckily my students are great 💚
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Still on my feet! Losing my voice. Hybrid teaching is a killer 💀 but luckily my students are great 💚
Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
Riotous discussion of Intermediality in my Intimacy, Privacy & Authenticity seminar today (clips, lots of clips!) 💥 @annakornbluh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Riotous discussion of Intermediality in my Intimacy, Privacy & Authenticity seminar today (clips, lots of clips!) 💥 @annakornbluh.bsky.social
This one pretty much shaped my high school experience. After a couple of listens we all had the hair and the drab thrift store jackets and overcoats, and spent all our time walking around the cemetery in the rain.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This one pretty much shaped my high school experience. After a couple of listens we all had the hair and the drab thrift store jackets and overcoats, and spent all our time walking around the cemetery in the rain.
There’s holiday decorations, and then there’s Rotterdam’s festive buttplugs 👌
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
There’s holiday decorations, and then there’s Rotterdam’s festive buttplugs 👌
The last few concerts I’ve seen have been plagued by phone use. Tonight Swans began by simply saying ‘NO FUCKING PHONES’ and there was nary a one for the two and a half hour show 🤌🫶
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The last few concerts I’ve seen have been plagued by phone use. Tonight Swans began by simply saying ‘NO FUCKING PHONES’ and there was nary a one for the two and a half hour show 🤌🫶
Reading and being read
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reading and being read
For Remembrance Sunday, thinking of my grandfather’s brother Robert who emigrated from Ireland to Canada only to be sent back to die at Vimy Ridge in 1917
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
For Remembrance Sunday, thinking of my grandfather’s brother Robert who emigrated from Ireland to Canada only to be sent back to die at Vimy Ridge in 1917
Back in Utrechtopia for Le Guess Who?
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Back in Utrechtopia for Le Guess Who?
Pizza by Jacques Cousteau / Steve Zissou
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pizza by Jacques Cousteau / Steve Zissou
Voting at the Anne Frank House, talk about lessons of history 👀
Lines at the Anne Frank House are always long, but rather than tourists, this time it's locals voting.
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Voting at the Anne Frank House, talk about lessons of history 👀
Found an old bookmark 👀
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Found an old bookmark 👀
I somehow missed the first Cocteau Twins album Garlands lo these 40 years - but I found a cheap copy of the 1982 4AD pressing and it’s lovely: gothic and bass heavy and brooding and raw (the first song is ‘blood bitch’) #nowplaying
October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I somehow missed the first Cocteau Twins album Garlands lo these 40 years - but I found a cheap copy of the 1982 4AD pressing and it’s lovely: gothic and bass heavy and brooding and raw (the first song is ‘blood bitch’) #nowplaying
Amen. Crap futures
i want a fridge that keeps my food cold but is completely stupid, a tv that just shows programs & doesn’t endeavor to Know me, a washing machine that makes my clothes clean but isn’t asking to like, scan my retina. what is all this invasive internet of things shit & who ever asked for it
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Amen. Crap futures
Listening to the new season of Round About Town by @kevinboniface.bsky.social while I bake a cake for my kid’s 21st (?!) birthday. More humour and brilliant insights, with an even sharper edge. Highly recommended if you like good things.
October 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Listening to the new season of Round About Town by @kevinboniface.bsky.social while I bake a cake for my kid’s 21st (?!) birthday. More humour and brilliant insights, with an even sharper edge. Highly recommended if you like good things.
Last night in Italy. I’m sad, but I also know that one more day of consuming twelve plates of antipasti and a bottle of negroamaro before the primi piatti arrive and I will surely die
October 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Last night in Italy. I’m sad, but I also know that one more day of consuming twelve plates of antipasti and a bottle of negroamaro before the primi piatti arrive and I will surely die
I want a Maserati hearse 💀
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I want a Maserati hearse 💀
I have located my future Italian compound
October 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I have located my future Italian compound
Pomegranates, grapes, citrus, olives, palms, cacti - how I missed you!
October 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Pomegranates, grapes, citrus, olives, palms, cacti - how I missed you!
Midnight delirium
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Midnight delirium
Love it when the coffee machine at work asks me depressing questions first thing in the morning
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Love it when the coffee machine at work asks me depressing questions first thing in the morning
Today in angry cat on my lap news
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today in angry cat on my lap news
If you want a real challenge let’s redeem ambrosia salad 🍒
September 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If you want a real challenge let’s redeem ambrosia salad 🍒
I’m teaching a new seminar on … DIFFICULTY. (Curious how many students will sign up.)
Favourite books / essays on difficulty in literature & art, in defence of, etc?
Favourite books / essays on difficulty in literature & art, in defence of, etc?
September 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I’m teaching a new seminar on … DIFFICULTY. (Curious how many students will sign up.)
Favourite books / essays on difficulty in literature & art, in defence of, etc?
Favourite books / essays on difficulty in literature & art, in defence of, etc?