Description
Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics, personhood, and truth, and offers in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we might live in it. Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization of political dissent, the myths of radical sex, and why we may choose to leave room in our lives for ghosts. At once politically committed and philosophically capacious, Being Numerous is a revaluation of the idea that "the personal is political," and goes on to ask the central question of our time-how can we live a non-fascist life?
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today.
About the Author
Natasha Lennard is a contributing writer for the Intercept, and her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Nation, Esquire, Vice, Salon, and New Inquiry, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research, and co-authored Violence: Humans in Dark Times with Brad Evans.
Reviews
Full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion. -- Sarah Leonard, co-author of The Future We Want
Immediate and relevant but also profoundly philosophical. -- Razia Iqball * BBC News *
Natasha Lennard's prose is taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. -- Molly Crabapple
Love, the supernatural, and the state are all explored with the same fervour, reflecting on toxic relationships, a childhood ghost, and how the process of getting an American Green Card drove home the uncomfortable ties between our bedrooms and the state. * Dazed *
Concise and wonderfully acerbic * Quietus *
Lennard's perspective encourages an active, thoughtful view of citizenship in a disconcerting era. * TANK Magazine, Summer Reads *
An especially helpful analytical framework for the twenty-first century, a world with billions of digital selves interacting in a hypersurveilled universe, within which we are anything but free or empowered. * Vogue *
Riveting . Being Numerous is an enlightening and eminently readable guide to the radical politics of today. * Times Literary Supplement *
beautifully, written, often incisive and astute, and eminently relevant. * Jewish Currents *
Lennard is a lively, committed and thoughtful writer * Morning Star *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788734592
Author Natasha Lennard
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 292g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 15mm
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today.
About the Author
Natasha Lennard is a contributing writer for the Intercept, and her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Nation, Esquire, Vice, Salon, and New Inquiry, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research, and co-authored Violence: Humans in Dark Times with Brad Evans.
Reviews
Full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion. -- Sarah Leonard, co-author of The Future We Want
Immediate and relevant but also profoundly philosophical. -- Razia Iqball * BBC News *
Natasha Lennard's prose is taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. -- Molly Crabapple
Love, the supernatural, and the state are all explored with the same fervour, reflecting on toxic relationships, a childhood ghost, and how the process of getting an American Green Card drove home the uncomfortable ties between our bedrooms and the state. * Dazed *
Concise and wonderfully acerbic * Quietus *
Lennard's perspective encourages an active, thoughtful view of citizenship in a disconcerting era. * TANK Magazine, Summer Reads *
An especially helpful analytical framework for the twenty-first century, a world with billions of digital selves interacting in a hypersurveilled universe, within which we are anything but free or empowered. * Vogue *
Riveting . Being Numerous is an enlightening and eminently readable guide to the radical politics of today. * Times Literary Supplement *
beautifully, written, often incisive and astute, and eminently relevant. * Jewish Currents *
Lennard is a lively, committed and thoughtful writer * Morning Star *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788734592
Author Natasha Lennard
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 292g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 15mm
