CarlJWarren reviewed Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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5 stars
A personal narrative that seamlessly interweaves several heavy subjects together without making the reading experience to cumbersome. Would recommend
A personal narrative that seamlessly interweaves several heavy subjects together without making the reading experience to cumbersome. Would recommend
Klein uses the public's conflation of herself and Naomi Wolf as a jumping off point for an extremely insightful analysis of social media and the internet. Absolute must read for anyone interested in sociology of the web
I think I wanted this to be something slightly different than what it was—less on Wolfe and contemporary politics, and more on the concept of doubling, more abstract and literary, less political. It has elements of both, and autobiography in a way that seems quite new (and welcome) for Klein, so more an issue of proportion than of kind. As it is, I found this interesting in the moment but didn’t find a lot to take away with me.