Apparently these are uncertain times and yet we’re surrounded by new certainties. Things that only a few years ago would have seemed ridiculous are now the fabric of our lives. The inevitability of AI, the ever rightward trajectory of our politics and the collapse of international law are all foregone conclusions. You are, at best, naive if you questions any of these things - but that is exactly what Natasha Lennard asks us to do in her new book On Un/certainty.
Drawing on the late work of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as well as a cast of contemporary essayists, journalists and thinkers, Natasha asks us to reconsider what assumptions these certainties hinge on. How doubt can be marshalled in our dangerous age and whether the violent realities, brought about by these entrenched conceptions, are inevitable at all.
“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
“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
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