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Please join The New School's Natasha Lennard and Alice Crary for a discussion of Natasha's new book, On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times.
About On Un/Certainty:
While politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke “uncertain times” to explain everything from pandemic responses, to AI-industry depredations, to climate inaction, and more, journalist and theorist Natasha Lennard offers a radical intervention. Drawing on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and placing his work alongside thinkers rarely put into conversation, Lennard demonstrates how our obsession with uncertainty masks the violent certainties that dominate our fracturing world. On Un/Certainty applies philosophical insight to political practice, offering readers not just analysis but hope—and conceptual tools with which to act.
"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
"On Un/Certainty seeks 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.)"
—Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Lit Hub
"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 Femmephilia
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research.
Natasha Lennard is the associate director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program at The New School for Social Research. She is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum and The New York Times, among others. She is the author of On Un/Certainty (Forthcoming October 2026, Verso), Violence: Humans in Dark Times, (City Lights, 2018, with Brad Evans) and Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Verso, 2019).
Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor (Philosophy, Liberal Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies) and also Visiting Fellow at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. She was Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research (2014-2017) and Founding Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies (2014-2017).
A moral and social philosopher, Crary has written widely on issues in metaethics, moral psychology and normative ethics, philosophy and literature, philosophy and feminism, critical animal studies, critical environmental studies, critical disability studies, and Critical Theory as well as on figures such as Austin, Cavell, Diamond, Foot, Murdoch and Wittgenstein.
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