Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

De: Naomi Klein

Narrado por: Naomi Klein

2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, Winner
2023 New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 New York Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Audible.com Best of the Year, Long-listed
2023 The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Slate Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, Short-listed

This program is read by the author.

"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times

“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.”—Bill McKibben

“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times.”—Judith Butler

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 we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now—and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

©2023 Naomi Klein (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

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“It seems ever more possible that our society might collapse under the sheer weight of nonsense and performance and crazy misinformation that overwhelm our infoworld. With her trademark clarity and perception, and with chemo-level doses of wit and common sense, Naomi Klein goes further than anyone has so far in helping us understand that buzzing and confounding mess, and to see some ways out. If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.”—Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon and Falter

“Naomi Klein’s thoughtful and honest inquiry into the troubling duplication of her name and the distorted appropriation of her views becomes the occasion for an incisive account of how the Right has appropriated Left discourses, producing a nightmarish doubling that has plunged some of us into silence. Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times, showing us how to resist the lures of Fascism with militant humility and connection, letting ourselves be upended by what we thought we could not bear to see so that we can face and build an affirmative future.”—Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble and The Force of Nonviolence

“Naomi Klein is one of our most important intellectuals, distilling the political economies of corruption and crisis in our time. Here she plunges into the topsy-turvy world of doubles and mirrors to show that the growth of the right is not a case of malignancies infecting our otherwise pure societies; rather, it’s a matter of our own fears, insecurities, and defense mechanisms, all of them rooted in a savagely unequal and violent society. Klein writes with humor, enormous bravery, and humbling vulnerability. This is an extraordinary book.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Totally worth the read

Great book, Naomi is brilliant. She perfectly captured what it felt like to emerge after the pandemic and find the world fractured in to two different realities.

Very Much Needed Glimpse At al The Other Side

Loved it beginning to end. The synchronicity astounds. It's like she's in my head. I'm being purposefully vague here. Just take the step thru the looking glass.

required (and fascinating) reading

Klein gives us a useful tool for understanding those in our society who not only deny reality but claim its opposite is truth. Why do they do this? Do they really believe what they say? What does it mean about their plans and intentions? This book answers all these questions and more with scholarly and personal insight. It is unflinching yet empathetic in its dissection of those in the "mirror world". I'm looking forward to listening to it again.

Must read/listen

Crucial orientation for our disorienting times. Brilliant interdisciplinary research, told clearly, with heart and soul.

Timely

Timely reflection, easy to understand and effective at making a statement . Author is a genius

The Most Important Book Of 2023!!

I’m speechless. The timing of this book in regards to Israel’s
apocalyptic genocide in Palestine is profound. Naomi’s precision in getting to the root and heart of the most pressing issues we are facing globally is awe inspiring. She is a political sage. I finished it in less than 2 days and I’m going to dive in again. Buy it for everyone. Give this book a Pulitzer Prize!!!

Brilliant words for now

Brilliant, timely, and beautifully read. The words we all need now.




Thank you, Naomi. From another Naomi.

Powerful analysis of our age

Klein trains her incisive eye on the crises of our times, making her personal experience into an indispensable lesson. A must read.

brilliant

This is a brilliant book and she is a brilliant mind. I'm going to have to listen to the rest of her books.

Outstanding

Great listen. Superb integration of the personal, the societal & the political. The best post pandemic book!!