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  title info:
    title: Doppelganger
    sub title: a trip into the mirror world
  name:
    name part: Klein, Naomi
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 399 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self, a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience. She was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define. AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication, New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo? Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror. Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks what do w…
  table of contents: Introduction : Off-brand me -- Part one: Double life. Occupied -- Enter Covid, the threat multiplier -- My failed brand, or call me by her name -- Meeting myself in the woods -- Part two: Mirror world. They know about cell phones -- Diagonal lines -- MAGA's plus-one -- Ridiculously serious, seriously speechless -- The far right meets the far-out -- Autism and the anti-vax prequel -- Part three: Shadow lands. Calm, conspiracy ... capitalism -- No way out but back -- The Nazi in the mirror -- The unshakable ethnic double -- Part four: Facing the real. Unselfing -- Epilogue: Who is the double?
  note: Naomi Klein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Klein, Naomi
      name part: 1970-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wolf, Naomi
  subject:
    topic: Autobiography
  subject:
    topic: Branding (Marketing)
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Conspiracy theories
  subject:
    topic: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Doppelgängers
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Right and left (Political science)
  subject:
    topic: Social media and society
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
  classification: BC199.I4 K54 2023
  classification: 920
  identifier: 0374610320
  identifier: 9780374610326
  record info:
    record content source: LPU
    record creation date: 230804
    record change date: 20250816185312.6
    record identifier: in00004781024