Doppelganger
- Author Naomi Klein
- Narrator Naomi Klein
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 14 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Computing and Information Technology, Conspiracy theories, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Political ideologies and movements, Politics and government, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social media / social networking, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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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.
©2023 Naomi Klein (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Dazzling and erudite … There is something hopeful in this project, in its sheer intellectual ambition and range, its effort to pick apart and decipher the absurdities and ironies of our political derangement, which almost no other writer could pull off. If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one.
New York Times Book Review -
A deeply compelling read, one which feels urgent and necessary as we enter yet another period of political strife. In Doppelganger, Klein gives shape and context to that apocalyptic mindset – and implores us to offer up an alternative.
Evening Standard -
A book of surprising insights, unexpected connections and great subtlety … Doppelganger is really a story of political and psychic confusion … True to form, Klein’s ultimate message is log off and get on to the streets.
Guardian -
I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger … I can’t think of another text that better captures the berserk period we’re living through.
New York Times -
Klein wields her polymathic expertise like a sword, slicing through the mirror world … There’s a lot going on in Doppelganger, yet somehow Klein ties it all together into what we seem to be lacking as individuals: a cohesive whole. Doppelganger is both timely and timeless, a work in a grand tradition.
LA Times -
A deeply insightful inquiry into the ways in which the technology that drives our lives increasingly demands mirror-image doubles, tribal combatants to fuel a divided culture … a powerful antidote. In articulating and examining some of the darker forces of the world her “double” inhabits, Klein never forgets that the primary purpose of mirrors is actually self-reflection; to understand the other, you first have to know yourself.
The Observer
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