Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

English language

Published Sept. 4, 2023 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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978-0-374-61032-6
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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 …

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A la découverte du Monde miroir, invisible, presque incompréhensible, et pourtant si proche. Nul ne peut en revenir indemne.

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Certains livres changent la vie, d'autres changent notre vision du monde. D'autres encore font irruption dans le réel. Celui-ci combine ces deux dernières catégories. Le hasard, ou la destinée, a voulu que j'entame le Voyage dans le Monde miroir le premier février de cette année 2025, voyage littéraire uniquement, pour ma part. Dix jours seulement plus tard, nos plus de 300 millions d'amis américains ont entamé de leur côté leur voyage politique de l'autre côté du miroir. Je termine aujourd'hui cette lecture, ce séjour, un mois et près de 500 pages plus tard, groggy par une nouvelle vision du monde et sidéré de sa réalisation en temps réel de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique : un tsunami dont la vague nous laisse déjà interrogateurs vis-à-vis du présent et de l'avenir, proche comme plus lointain. L'impossible, l'impensable, est arrivé. Nous ne l'avons pas vu. Nous avons si peu anticipé. Et pourtant il …

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A riveting analysis of our moment in history, using the parallel paths of Naomis Klein and Wolf as a device to examine the multiple realities we've constructed for ourselves. Incisive and pointed, I particularly agree with a conclusion that pulls no punches about how to correct our paths and potentially save ourselves. I couldn't recommend it more highly.

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