Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world /

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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Klein, Naomi, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2023].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Klein, Naomi, > 1970- Wolf, Naomi. Autobiography. Branding (Marketing) > Political aspects. Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects. Climatic changes > Social aspects. Conspiracy theories. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Social aspects. Doppelgängers. Identity (Psychology) Right and left (Political science) Social media and society. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies.

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?