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What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double Someone almost like you,and yet not you at all
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name,but had radically different,harmful views,was getting chronically mistaken for her,it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality,becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media,the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path Why was identity - all we have to meet the world - so unstable
To find out,Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre,uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy theories,anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters,where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting'the children'). In doing so,she lifts the lid on our own culture during this surreal moment in history,as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands,publicly shame our enemies,watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister.
This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole,who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped,and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really matters.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 2928377214036Number of pages: 416Weight: 750 gDimensions: 240 x 156 x 40 mm
Naomi Klein: The Waterstones Interview
Description
It was amusing at first when Naomi Klein found people would confuse her with fellow author Naomi Wolf. But when her namesake started to develop increasingly extreme views during the COVID pandemic,it required more attention,and opened up a mirror-world of conspiracy,misinformation and shifting ideologies. In a fascinating conversation with the author of No Logo we discuss why what Doppelganger depicts is such a pressing issue for us all,and how to get back to what really matters.
Naomi Klein
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