Hyperpolitics

Autorentext

Anton Jäger holds a PhD in history from Cambridge and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and New Left Review.

Klappentext

What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­lic life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency — while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.

**Hyperpolitics **revisits the illusions of the "end of history" and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post–Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private pas­sions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power.

Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq’s disenchanted fictions, **Hyperpolitics **makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so incon­sequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.

Inhalt

Preface: Hyperpolitics, USA

1. A Grin without a Cat

2. Putnam from the Left

3. The Anti-Political Decade

4. Escape Routes