{"product_id":"on-un-certainty-the-uses-of-doubt-in-dangerous-times","title":"On Un\/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Natasha Lennard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerso\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10\/13\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781804295618\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke \"uncertain times\" to explain everything from pandemic responses to climate inaction, journalist and theorist Natasha Lennard offers a radical intervention. Lennard demonstrates how our obsession with uncertainty masks the violent certainties that dominate our fracturing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Un\/Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e applies philosophical insight to political practice, offering readers not just analysis but hope--and conceptual tools with which to act. The book tackles contemporary flashpoints through an original philosophical lens, demystifying our constant talk of crisis, polycrisis, and omnicrisis. Lennard examines the way entrenched conceptions of gendered experience are weaponized to harass the most vulnerable. Dissecting the discourse around borders, she reveals their enforcement to be a site of paranoid vigilance and violent property logics, which threaten millions of lives. Lennard addresses head-on the limits to traditional forms of political persuasion and demands that we think anew about how to build more liberatory forms of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and placing his work alongside thinkers rarely put into conversation, Lennard contends with the nature of certainty, identity, and ideology as we struggle into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/end-times-fascism-and-the-fight-for-the-living-world\" title=\"End Times Fascism\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnd Times Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eOn Un\/Certainty \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to name and so unseat 'pernicious certainty in action, ' and call for a different paradigm around the truths we take for granted-specifically as they pertain to what pundits are calling the polycrisis...Lennard's got a knack for making the heady feel approachable, even to a layperson. This promises to be a most topical intervention for the thinking human. (Bonus: it's slim enough to take on the subway.)\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e-- Most Anticipated Books of 2026, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For penetrating and revolutionary insights, not only into \"the news\" \u003ci\u003eper se \u003c\/i\u003ebut 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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/femmephilia-love-letters-to-trans-mermaids-queer-mothers-and-marilyn-monroe-1\" title=\"Femmephilia\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFemmephilia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Lennard\u003c\/b\u003e is a British-born, Brooklyn-based writer. She is a professor of Critical Journalism at the New School for Social Research in New York and a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eIntercept\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNation, Bookforum, Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/being-numerous-pb\" title=\"Being Numerous\"\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Nonfascist Life\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor (with Brad Evans) of \u003ci\u003eViolence: Humans in Dark Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54425103728923,"sku":"On Un\/Certainty","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/716XHCQwSZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793046839","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/on-un-certainty-the-uses-of-doubt-in-dangerous-times","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}