Doppelgänger

Description 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 whos 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. 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. Product Details Publisher Planeta Publishing Publish Date July 30, 2024 Pages 464 Language Spanish; Castilian TypeBook Paperback EAN/UPC 9786075697154 Dimensions 9.0 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches | 1.1 pounds About the Author An award-winning journalist and regular contributor to The Nation and The Guardian, Naomi Klein is the author of the international best-seller, No Logo (Paidós), which has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has been translated into 28 languages. After the success of No Logo, in 2002 he published a compilation of his essays and journalistic works, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Trenches of the Debate on Globalization (Paidós). Two years later, in 2004, he released The Take, a film documentary about occupied factories in Argentina, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. This documentary was in the official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, of the American Film Institute. Earlier this year, Klein was awarded the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her reporting from Iraq, published in Harper's Magazine.