Doppelganger

Review

I wasn't sure what this book would be, but by the end I was truly impressed by Klein's ability to pull together so many contemporary issues and find shared threads. I especially enjoyed the section about the Mirror World and how concerns that are brushed aside by dominant discourse are picked up elsewhere.

The self as perfected brand, the self as digital avatar, the self as data mine, the self as idealized body, the self as racist and anti-Semitic projection, the child as mirror of the self, the self as eternal victim. These doubles share one thing in common: all are ways of not seeing.