Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein
Over the past 25 years, Naomi Klein has charted and documented our politics and culture with a series of incisive best-selling books, from No Logo and The Shock Doctrine to This Changes Everything and On Fire, laying bare the effects of branding, austerity, and climate profiteering on our societies and souls.
Doppelganger braids together elements of tragicomic memoir, chilling political reportage, and piercing cultural analysis, as she dives deep into what she calls the Mirror World – our destabilised present, rife with doubles and confusion. Where far-right movements feign solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers further scramble our familiar political allegiances, and many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere.
Klein begins this intellectual adventure story by grappling with her own doppelganger— a fellow author and public intellectual whose views are antithetical to Klein’s own, but whose name and public persona are sufficiently similar that many people have confused the two over the years.
About the author
Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of international bestsellers including This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire, which have been published in more than thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor in the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC’s Centre of Climate Justice, and an honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world, and she has just launched a regular column for The Guardian.
