Format:
x, 399 Seiten ;
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24 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-241-62130-1
,
978-0-241-62131-8
Content:
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity - all we have to meet the world - so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world- one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting 'the children'). In doing so, she lifts the lid on our own culture during this surreal moment in history, as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister. This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped, and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really matters
Note:
Introduction: Off-brand me -- Part one. Double life -- 1. Occupied -- 2. Enter Covid, the threat multiplier -- 3. My failed brand, or Call me by her name -- 4. Meeting myself in the woods -- Part two. Mirror world -- 5. They know about cell phones -- 6. Diagonal lines -- 7. MAGA's Plus-One -- 8. Ridiculously serious, seriously speechless -- 9. The far right meets the far-out -- 10. Autism and the anti-vas prequel -- Part three. Shadow lands -- 11. Calm, conspiracy... capitalism -- 12. No way out but back -- 13. The Nazi in the mirror -- 14. The unshakable ethnic double -- Part four. Facing the real -- 15. Unselfing -- Epilogue: who is the double?
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-802-06196-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Internet
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Neue Medien
;
Identitätsdiebstahl
;
Desinformation
;
Verschwörungstheorie
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Autobiografie
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Autobiographies
;
Autobiography
Author information:
Klein, Naomi 1970-
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