Doppelganger
Book description
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…
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2 authors picked Doppelganger as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There’s never been more pressure to turn yourself into a product, and if that’s ever bothered you, this incisive and impassioned book shows why that’s a symptom of larger problems.
Probing the systems that fuel our modern conflagration of politics, social media, and predatory capitalism, Klein arrives at conclusions both chilling and comforting. Chilling because the enemies of democracy and our planet thrive in confusion, panic, and toxic individualism; comforting because we’ll never find a way out until we know where we are.
When I put it down, I felt stronger and wiser.
The eminent critic of modern-day capitalism Naomi Klein finds herself falling down a rabbit hole as she grows fascinated by a woman she is frequently confused with, the feminist author turned MAGA-style conspiracy theorist, Naomi Wolf.
In so doing, she stumbles on remarkable insights about a mirror world that too many of us inhabit – an online fantasy house of alternative facts and explanations we use to make sense of an increasingly confusing and troubled digital age. Identity itself, and with it our grip on reality, may be fracturing in ways we do not even suspect.
An all-too-rare book of…
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