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Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world / Naomi Klein.

Klein, Naomi, 1970- (author.).

Summary:

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, 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 similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see.     An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781039006898
  • Physical Description: x, 399 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Misinformation.
Social media > Influence.
Social media > Psychological aspects.
Social media > Political aspects.
Social media and society.
Conservatism > Psychological aspects.
Conservatism > Social aspects.
Topic Heading: Festival of the Written Arts 2024 > Sechelt (B.C.)

Available copies

  • 20 of 40 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort St. James Public Library.

Holds

  • 20 current holds with 40 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Fort St. James Public Library 302.231 KLE (Text) 35196000330329 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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