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DOPPELGANGER with Naomi Klein

September 14, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

Details

Date:
September 14, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm
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Website:
https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016776058934/WN_GnVE8bHsSAupn8JOq0GF0A#/registration

Venue

First Parish in Cambridge
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

Organizer

Cambridge Forum
Phone:
(617) 495-2727
Website:
http://www.cambridgeforum.org/
About

September 14 at 7 pm

Cambridge Forum is pleased to partner with Harvard Book Store for the launch of Naomi Klein’s latest book, Doppelganger.  The event will be recorded live in First Parish Church, on Mass. Avenue in Harvard Square for later CF broadcast with the support of GBH Forum Network.  Entrance is by ticket only which includes the price of the book.

https://www.harvard.com/event/naomi_klein_at_first_parish_church/

Award-winning author and Guardian columnist, 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”.

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of international bestsellers including This Changes EverythingThe Shock DoctrineNo Logo, and On Fire, which have been published in more than thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor in the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.