
Being Numerous
Essays on Non-Fascist Life
Natasha Lennard(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 2019
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-78873-459-2 (ISBN)
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?
Reviews / Votes
Full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion. -- Sarah Leonard, co-author of <i>The Future We Want</i> 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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78873-459-2 (9781788734592)
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Person
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.