Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours)
What it’s like to journey into the “Mirror World.”
September 25, 2023
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Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours)
Summary
Every generation thinks they’re living through the strangest times, but is our generation right? Sean Illing speaks with writer and activist Naomi Klein about her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World. They discuss how a much different Naomi — her doppelganger — scrambled her professional life and led to an unexpected plunge into the ironies and absurdities of our digital world.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein), author of Doppelganger and the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice
References:
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Picador, 2008)
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein (Picador, 1999)
Backlash by Susan Faludi (1991)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (PublicAffairs, 2019)
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