The true doppelganger is the second body enmeshed in distant violence and extraction

Evidence

Performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance. What is being avoided? I think it’s our true doppelganger. What Daisy Hildyard calls our “second body,” the one enmeshed with wars and whales, the one benefiting from the genocides of the past and adding our little drops of poison to the great die-offs of the future. The second body that perpetually mines the Shadow Lands for its comforts and conveniences. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1054

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the ‘true doppelganger’ concept, resting on Daisy Hildyard’s ‘second body’ — the political-philosophical anchor that elevates the book from personal doubling to structural critique.