On Un/Certainty

“An inoculation against apathy and nostalgia, this is an essential, provocative collection for our confounding times.”
—Astra Taylor

“One of the most brilliant and compelling thinkers of our time.”
—Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Invisible Man

“Compassionate and merciless, Natasha Lennard’s writing is proof that moral philosophy must not be left to the mealymouthed centrists.”
—Andrea Long Chu

“We are snowed under by known unknowns. Thank heavens for Natasha Lennard then, here to talk us through the expectations we place on words and walk us out of the numbness induced by their mindless repetition.”
—Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek’s Bastards

“Fascism attempts to destroy the capacity to think. Natasha Lennard restores it here with lyric philosophy.”
—Hannah Zeavin, Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley

“Sometimes an essay arrives that sends a gust of fresh air into the stuffy present from an unexpected angle. What does it mean when people say they feel assailed by uncertainty and insecurity? A sign hovering over a conjuncture of seemingly ubiquitous instability, this trope has never been investigated – until now. Making surprising use of Wittgenstein, Natasha Lennard here enjoins us to think anew, and closer, about the meanings of uncertainty on the fronts – racism, transphobia, genocide – that define our age. Hers is a vital contribution to the hard work of making any sense of what’s going on.”
—Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up A Pipeline

“Amidst inflationary talk of uncertainty and crisis, Lennard makes a bracing case, instead, for the critique of pernicious certainties. A brilliant provocation to further thought. A hinge book.”
—Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown

“An invitation to rethink what we know, and how we know it. Lennard challenges conventional understandings of crisis, borders and gender, revealing how deeply entrenched certainties shape our perceptions of the world.'”
—Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

“For penetrating and revolutionary insights, not only into “the news” per se but also into our hell-world’s basic epistemic workings and (especially) their impermanency, I always look to Natasha Lennard. At the same time as demonstrating almost every day—for well over a decade now—what a precious thing journalism can still be, Lennard has become this century’s most illuminating political reader of Wittgenstein and our most invigorating public philosopher of antifascism.”
—Sophie Lewis, author of Femmphilia