On episode 158 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Naomi Klein. Naomi is a writer. Together with Paul, Naomi takes a deep and incisive look at the conditions of this moment, digging into climate change, the pandemic, capitalism and much more.

Naomi talks about the importance of creating visions of the future and talks about her video project, A Message from the Future. Her and Paul then go on to unpack how our relationship to technology has changed as a result of the pandemic. She presents her own insightful ideas for what we will need to take from this experience and how to approach what comes next after the pandemic.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough and On Fire, which have been translated into over 30 languages.  Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center, and contributor for The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.  She is cofounder of the climate justice organization The Leap.

Follow this link to read Naomi’s article about Bernie Sanders’ mittens, published by the Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/21/inauguration-bernie-sanders-mittens/

Credits:

Paul Holdengraber - Co-Creator, Host, OLA Director
Anthony Audi - Co-Creator, Researcher, OLA Director
Alejandro Cohen - Co-Creator, Producer, Composer
Christian Pitt - Production Coordinator 
Erin Cooney - Copy, Production
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