Doppelganger a trip into the mirror world
(Large Print)
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[Waterville, ME] : Thorndike Press, 2024.
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - New Large Type Nonfiction | LP 302.231 KLE | On Shelf |
Suffern Free Library - New Large Type Nonfiction | 302.231 KLE | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Conservatism -- North America -- Psychological aspects.
Conspiracy theories -- North America.
Doppelgängers.
Klein, Naomi, -- 1970-
Large type books.
Misinformation -- North America.
Social media -- Political aspects -- North America.
Social media and society -- North America.
Women political activists -- Canada -- Biography.
Conspiracy theories -- North America.
Doppelgängers.
Klein, Naomi, -- 1970-
Large type books.
Misinformation -- North America.
Social media -- Political aspects -- North America.
Social media and society -- North America.
Women political activists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Published
[Waterville, ME] : Thorndike Press, 2024.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
669 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references.
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 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Klein, N. (2024). Doppelganger: a trip into the mirror world (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Klein, Naomi, 1970-. 2024. Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World. Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Klein, Naomi, 1970-. Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Thorndike Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Klein, Naomi. Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Large print edition., Thorndike Press, 2024.
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