Scan barcode
A review by cassreading
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
challenging
informative
reflective
4.0
My feelings about this book are, overall, very positive. Naomi Klein is an amazing writer, and the figure of the doppelganger was a really productive way to explore the Mirror World of right-wing ideology. It was informative and compelling as a refutation of that ideology and a call to collective action for the left.
I do find myself wondering if she was trying for some kind of psychological analysis of what drives people to the alt right. Parts of the book felt that way, but I don't know if it had anything really coherent to say about the psychology of radicalization, or the way that racial aggrievement and the internet feeds into it.
I find she often extended too much grace to her doppelganger. Some of the connections she made in an effort to "understand" the Other Naomi were a BIG stretch.
I do find myself wondering if she was trying for some kind of psychological analysis of what drives people to the alt right. Parts of the book felt that way, but I don't know if it had anything really coherent to say about the psychology of radicalization, or the way that racial aggrievement and the internet feeds into it.
I find she often extended too much grace to her doppelganger. Some of the connections she made in an effort to "understand" the Other Naomi were a BIG stretch.