What Naomi Klein thinks about Trauma

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Canadian writer and journalist, author of No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine (2007), This Changes Everything (2014), Doppelganger (2023) and, with Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism (2026). Writes the newsletter Patterns.

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   Our readingThe shock doctrine does to whole societies what torture does to one prisoner

   Their wordsThe shock doctrine mimics this process precisely, attempting to achieve on a mass scale what torture does one on one in the interrogation cell.

   ↗The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, 2007)archive.org All 4 from this book