Articles by Hannah Proctor
The French utopian socialist Charles Fourier is a key figure in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project... more The French utopian socialist Charles Fourier is a key figure in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. For Benjamin, one of the most significant aspects of Fourier’s utopian vision was its conceptualisation of work as a form of play. According to Fourier it would be possible to build a world around people’s inherent desires. In such a world work would be pleasurable and therefore free from exploitation. This paper explores and critiques Benjamin’s engagement with Fourier, arguing that he overlooked the persistence of domination in Fourier’s world. Here, however, Benjamin’s writings on the figure of the child suggest an alternative to Fourier’s ordered universe. Benjamin credited Fourier with ‘cracking open the natural teleology.’This article argues that although Fourier perpetuated a vision of natural progress and order that conformed with Enlightenment thinking, Benjamin’s writings on pedagogy imagine the child as capable of intervening in history and nature. Rather than imagining the child as a prototype adult, or play as a rehearsal for work, this paper will follow Benjamin in exploring the revolutionary potential of children’s unique perceptions, which pose a challenge to existing adult structures.
Book Reviews by Hannah Proctor
Radical Philosophy, Jan 2013
Book Chapters by Hannah Proctor
essay included in the collection Objects of Feminism edited by Maija Timonen and Josefine Wikström
Published in the collection TORQUE #2 THE ACT OF READING (Liverpool; Torque Editions, 2015)
Conference Presentations by Hannah Proctor
A recorded version/reworking of a talk given at HM in November 2014. It starts with Benjamin's Mo... more A recorded version/reworking of a talk given at HM in November 2014. It starts with Benjamin's Moscow Diary and goes from there.
Something might be a waste of space, a waste of time or a waste of money. Industry, consumption a... more Something might be a waste of space, a waste of time or a waste of money. Industry, consumption and bodies generate waste. Waste is inert matterrubbish or excrement.
Blog Posts by Hannah Proctor
Drafts by Hannah Proctor
Edited by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor, and designed by Sophie Carapetian. Please see the docum... more Edited by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor, and designed by Sophie Carapetian. Please see the document for more details.
Books by Hannah Proctor
by Sam Dolbear, Hannah Proctor, Emily Doucet, Xenia Marinou, Amy Tobin, Mijael Jiménez, Louis C Hartnoll, Marie Louise Krogh, Tom Allen, Arild Linneberg, Elizabeth Atherton, and Jeff O'Brien Arcade Materials: Red, Blue, Yellow, 2019
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