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Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 5 stars

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who 


It is an attempt to use my own doppelgĂ€nger experience—the havoc wreaked and the lessons learned about me, her, and us—as a guide into and through what I have come to understand as our doppelgĂ€nger culture. A culture crowded with various forms of doubling, in which all of us who maintain a persona or avatar online create our own doppelgĂ€ngers—virtual versions of ourselves that represent us to others. A culture in which many of us have come to think of ourselves as personal brands, forging a partitioned identity that is both us and not us, a doppelgĂ€nger we perform ceaselessly in the digital ether as the price of admission in a rapacious attention economy.

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