Naomi Klein – författare

Vi lever i en tid där högerextrema rörelser flörtar vilt med arbetarklassen och där AI-genererat innehåll ständigt luckrar upp gränsen mellan sant och falskt. Författaren och aktivisten Naomi Klein kallar vår nya verklighet ett slags spegelland, fyllt av förvillande skuggspel, digitala återspeglingar och fake news.

I sin nya bok konfronterar Klein konspirationstänkandet och vår politiskt polariserade samtid genom att vända sig till bland annat Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock och bell hooks. Allt med utgångspunkt i hur hon själv ofta sammanblandats med den amerikanska författaren och namnen Naomi Wolf. Kan vi med dagens förutsättningar bygga en politik grundad i omsorg om det gemensamma? 

Doppelgänger är en personlig och tankeväckande skildring av vår tids självupptagenhet, en intellektuell resa bortom hopplösheten.

NAOMI KLEIN är en kanadensisk författare, journalist och aktivist - och en av vår tids största tänkare. Hon är känd för sina banbrytande verk om globalisering, kapitalism och klimatförändringar som No logo, Chockdoktrinen och Det här förändrar allt. 

"´Doppelgängers´ styrka ligger i elegansen i metaforen, och i hur ärlig Klein är med att de två spegelbilderna har många likheter, hur ogärna personerna på respektive sida än vill." Marika Lindgren Åsbrink, Aftonbladet

"...en ur alla synvinklar svindlande läsupplevelse." Dagens Nyheter, Sara Martinsson

"...en måsteläsning i vår förvirrade tid, där paranoian och rädslan för den andre tycks växa sig allt större. Doppelgänger slår ett slag för intellektuell komplexitet och hederlighet, och är en lisa att läsa." Göteborgs-Posten, Sanna Samuelsson

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to IraqIn her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One of Slate’s ten best books of 2023 | A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 | One of Time’s ten best books of 2023 | Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award“I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger . . . I can’t think of another text that better captures the berserk period we’re living through.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times“If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one.” —Katie Roiphe, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us—and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now—and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One of Slate’s ten best books of 2023 | A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 | One of Time’s ten best books of 2023 | Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award“I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger . . . I can’t think of another text that better captures the berserk period we’re living through.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times“If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one.” —Katie Roiphe, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us—and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now—and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right-and a recipe for how to fight them. As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw on to resist it? In their scathing assessment of the contemporary scene, the celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explore how the religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of messianic prophecy, the rampages of a resource- and job-consuming artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration and cultural replacement. Rather than avoiding this conflagration, they welcome it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other side."End Times Fascism" is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout-whether by repairing to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many internal conflicts and contradictions and their nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leave them vulnerable to a new kind of "pro-life" politics-rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.

De rika bygger bunkrar, de superrika bygger raketer till Mars, och medan planeten brinner drömmer techmiljardärer, religiösa extremister och etnonationalister om samma sak: undergången som räddning – för dem själva, inte för någon annan. 

I Undergångsfascismen myntar Naomi Klein och Astra Taylor ett nytt begrepp för vår tids mest skrämmande filosofi. Detta handlar om dem som gör världen obeboelig och sedan planerar sin egen flykt undan konsekvenserna. Lyxbunkrar för de utvalda, rymdraketer för de som redan gett upp jorden, murar mot alla andra. 

Liksom i Chockdoktrinen och Det här förändrar allt definierade Klein hur vi förstår kapitalismens kriser. I den här boken går hon samman med författaren och aktivisten Astra Taylor för att kartlägga hur klimatkollaps, AI-hysteri och religiösa undergångskonspirationer smält samman till en gemensam dödskult bland makteliten. Genom fältstudier och skarp analys visar de att denna allians, trots all sin makt, bär på djupa sprickor – och att just dessa sprickor kommer att bli vår öppning. 

För boken är, mitt i allt mörker, en stridsskrift för hoppet. De flesta människor – även många som röstat på Trump och hans gelikar – vill inte ha undergången. De vill ha en framtida värd att leva i. Undergångsfascismen är en karta över hur vi bygger den innan det är för sent, tillsammans. 

''Naomi Klein''s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations'' - GRETA THUNBERGThe first book for younger readers by internationally bestselling social activist Naomi Klein: the most authoritative and inspiring book on climate change for young people yet.Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon. The effects of climate change are all around us.Reforestation. School-strikes for climate change. Young people are saving the world and you can join them because you deserve better. Are you ready to change everything?Includes notes on the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, and how you can get involved to make the world a safer and better place.From the Great Barrier Reef to Hurricane Katrina to school environmental policies to Greta Thunberg - climate change impacts every aspect of the world you live in and you have the power to lead the way by enacting change.Internationally bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, with award-winning children''s science writer Rebecca Stefoff, gives a powerful picture of why and how the planet is changing, providing effective tools for action so that YOU really can make a difference.

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to IraqIn her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman''s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement''s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

A Tenth Anniversary Edition of Naomi Klein''s No Logo with a New Introduction by the AuthorNO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein''s second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. As America faces a second economic depression, Klein''s analysis of our corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever.Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo is the first book to put the new resistance into pop-historical and clear economic perspective. Naomi Klein tells a story of rebellion and self-determination in the face of our new branded world.