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.

DEFINE: Introduces Hildyard's concept of the 'second body' as the entangled, ethically burdened self connected to global harms, and frames avoidance as a defense against confronting it.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1054