Naomi Klein on conspiracies, climate and the 'personal brand'

<p>Today’s guest is Canadian academic and author Naomi Klein.&nbsp;Klein shot to fame with her first book, No Logo, which offered an acute critique of how powerful corporations in the 1990s had profited off exploitation in a globalizing world.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Her later books have examined a range of subjects including crisis capitalism, militarism, and the climate crisis.&nbsp;</p><br><p>In her new book Doppelganger Klein uses the fact that she is commonly confused online for a very different writer, Naomi Wolf, who has called Covid-19 vaccine programmes ‘mass murder’, as a device to explore modern themes including online identity, conspiracy theories and the 21st Century supremacy of the ‘personal brand’.&nbsp;</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>