Naomi Klein

Products they talk about

• Empire of AI👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation on the material infrastructure and geopolitics of artificial intelligence

  “All right. So this is a little bit obvious, but Empire of AI by Karen Howe. It's just such an incredible combination of just on the ground, globetrotting investigative reporting, making the material inputs and human inputs of AI visible. But then it has this big idea thesis around empire building, which I think is really true.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Fire Alarm👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation on walter benjamin and historical interpretation for contemporary politics

  “And the third book is a book called Fire Alarm, reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History by Michael Lowy. And Walter Benjamin is the Text of History by Michael Lowy.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

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  Here Where We Live Is Our Country👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation on jewish labor movement and commitment to place and community

  “I guess we've been talking around this, but my friend Molly Crabapple has an absolutely brilliant book coming out called Here Where We Live is Our Country, The Story of the Jewish Bund. And it's available for pre-order. It comes out in April. And I think it gets at what an alternative story of here-ness could be, of really committing to here, which is what the Jewish labor bund was doing before, between the wars.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The Beauty Myth💬 Mentioned

  …discussing naomi wolf's influential feminist book from the 1990s

  “Her sort of heyday was the 1990s with a breakthrough book called The Beauty Myth. It came out when I was an undergrad and it had a thesis that young women were being forced to add a third shift. There's already like the shift at work and then the shift at home. But on top of that, there's a beauty shift.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show