Doppelganger with Naomi Klein

Award-winning author and Guardian columnist, Naomi Klein has departed from her usual topics with this newest book which enters more personal territory. Doppelganger uses the fact that Klein has often been mistaken for author Naomi Wolf, as a jumping-off point to explore conspiracy theories and what Klein calls the “Mirror World”. Klein looks at how “far-right movements feign solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and new-age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers further scramble our familiar political alliances.” Doppelganger explores “what it feels like to watch one’s identity slip away in the digital ether, an experience many more of us will have in the age of AI”.

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:57 - Naomi Klein First Reading
0:12:08 - Interview
0:42:40 - Q&A
0:59:45 - Naomi Klein Second Reading
1:07:21 - Closing

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[lermannarrator]

Oddly enough, something a bit similar happened with another two authors: Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis. They knew each other and Lewis admired Sinclair, for whom he worked one summer as a teen. If you ask people 'who wrote The Jungle?' many get it right and some will say 'Sinclair Lewis'. Or ask 'what books did Sinclair Lewis write' and more than a few people will say 'The Jungle'. I once put a query to ChatGPT asking for a list of Upton Sinclair's minor or lesser known works and it included a couple of titles written by Sinclair Lewis. This error is not as grave as Ms Klein's situation but it is somewhat similar in its origination and persistence.

[aydilla]

Wonderful as always! I've watched Naomi Klein live in another talk and she's always so brilliant and eloquent ❤

[farleyandrews]

Naomi (Klein), Have you contact, opinion, even "friendship" possibly (?), with Chelsea Manning ? She may have come up with a good many of important conclusions regarding necessary work needing to be done, and ahead of us, but we all need more friends, and an understanding of who supports us, and "why ?", because, I feel, she has had a good deal of experience, and a good mind (?). - Farley Andrews

[Publicist]

There are gossips that you are BFF of Neeomi Wolf. And you are trying hard to save her.
Neeomi Wolf doesn’t need to be saved because nobody can touch her and you know why.
Anyway, it is none of my business if she is trans or not.

[KlausBahnhof]

It's a bad look for Klein to throw another woman under the bus in order to self-promote. This is not feminism.
Klein is using Wolf's success as a launching pad to elevate her own work, while attempting to destroy Wolf in the process.
It's worth noting that Wolf never claimed to be a "copy" of Klein in any respect, she is an independent thinker and author.
Hard to see this as anything other that professional jealousy on Klein's part. Shameful conduct.

Edit: it's also incredibly narcissistic for Klein to view this other woman as nothing but a mirror image of herself.

[matren]

not a great interview. he had his list of questions and just went through them without reacting to anything Klein said

[kerrylondon]

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[MeFareLaugh]

Naomi Klein should have throw books on Naomi Wolf ‘s face. Here, learn something. I am a professor. I heard Wolf is jealous of your power. And book sales. Do you think she marry Brian that you exposed as a mercenary, if not deep fake, to intimidate women like you? I am confused because Naomi Wolf wrote on her erased page that Jews are a happy family. And you are Jew so how Jew fights against each other?

[movenlaughwithnat]

“Mirror world”? Naomi Wolf speaks the truth unlike you.

[tedricher]

The irony, of course, is that both Naomi’s are conspiracy theorists.