Julian Hanna
@julianisland.bsky.social
Prof of Culture Stuff. Author of Island (Bloomsbury) & The Manifesto Handbook (Zero).
I’m pretty sure someone’s tried that on the inspiration for these ornaments & pride of the city, the buttplug gnome
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I’m pretty sure someone’s tried that on the inspiration for these ornaments & pride of the city, the buttplug gnome
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 👌
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
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
Compromised by having the (original) spaghetti all'assassina 🔪 + too many 🥤
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Compromised by having the (original) spaghetti all'assassina 🔪 + too many 🥤
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
Persimmons and figs!
October 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Persimmons and figs!
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
Why not dress it up for the holidays!
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Why not dress it up for the holidays!
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?
Bring back dazzle camo
September 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Bring back dazzle camo
Three Days of the Condor on MUBI!
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Three Days of the Condor on MUBI!
Impromptu Rorschach tests at the Rijksmuseum today (describing them for the Alt a bit tricky)
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Impromptu Rorschach tests at the Rijksmuseum today (describing them for the Alt a bit tricky)
What a marvellous snub from Gertrude Stein to Ezra Pound, who tried to invite himself over: ‘I am so sorry, answered Gertrude Stein, but Miss Toklas has a bad tooth and beside we are busy picking wild flowers.’
September 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What a marvellous snub from Gertrude Stein to Ezra Pound, who tried to invite himself over: ‘I am so sorry, answered Gertrude Stein, but Miss Toklas has a bad tooth and beside we are busy picking wild flowers.’