Every generation thinks they’re living through the strangest times, but is our generation right? Sean Illing speaks with writer and activist Naomi Klein about her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World. They discuss how a much different Naomi — her doppelganger — scrambled her professional life and led to an unexpected plunge into the ironies and absurdities of our digital world.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein), author of Doppelganger and the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice
References: 
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Picador, 2008)
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein (Picador, 1999)
Backlash by Susan Faludi (1991)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (PublicAffairs, 2019)
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