Brown University: Doppelganger – A trip into the mirror world, Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is the author of many books, including No Logo (2000), The Shock Doctrine (2007), This Changes Everything (2014),and, most recently, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (2023), which was a New York Timesbestseller and A Notable Book of 2023, and one of Time Magazine Top Ten Best Books of the Year. Klein’s work in film includes the 2015 feature documentary of This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis, and narrated by Klein, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007, the six-minute companion film to The Shock Doctrine, created by Oscar winning director Alfonso Cuarón, was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale, San Sebastien and Toronto International Film Festivals. The Shock Doctrine was also adapted into a feature length documentary and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. In 2004, Naomi Klein wrote The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. In 2019, Klein was named one of the Frederick Douglass 200, a project to honor the impact of 200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass. Since 2021 she is the Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and the founder and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Hosted by The Democracy Project and the MCM Elemental Media Lab (EML) in partnership with the BAI, Klein will be in conversation with The Democracy Project co-founder and co-director, Bonnie Honig, and MCM Chair and EML founder, Macarena Gomez-Barris.