{"product_id":"9781632431202-on-certainty","title":"On Certainty","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyrical poems that tell the story of a nameless woman navigating a technological dystopia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the poems of \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, an unnamed woman in a strangely familiar dystopia narrates a story of power and decline, where the Tyrant has gained ascendency and the Philosopher is dying. Here, the Tyrant rules over a decimated ecology filled with android deer, burnt towns, and exhausted individuals dependent on virtual reality augmentation. In choosing whether to take the Philosopher’s place in a struggle against the Tyrant, the narrator must consider how her decision may perpetuate the currently existing catastrophic systems.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Weaving together speculative fiction, philosophical aphorism, lyric fragment, and documentary technique,\u003ci\u003e On Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e echoes the contemporary world that can feel simultaneously quotidian and strange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41270934437985,"sku":"9781632431202","price":18.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34499397_22046cf3-65f3-4a74-9649-1c13c2104bc3.jpg?v=1747947272","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781632431202-on-certainty","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}