The Second Body
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jan 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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“And finally, a book called The Second Body by an English woman novelist called Daisy Hildyard. It's not a piece of fiction, it's an essay on what she calls The Second Body, which is a highly imaginative way of understanding that our physical body, which is sitting on this chair right here, is actually only a relatively small part of my wider body, which extends across the world in, let's say, the waste that I produce, the plastic bottles and so on that end up in the stomachs of whales or the working conditions of a garment factory worker in Bangladesh.”
The Ezra Klein Show — This Question Can Change Your Lifeat 1:04:04
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