Jen Pan speaks with Anton Jäger about his new article on “hyper-politics”: while a constant, low-stakes political discourse suffuses everything now, very little improves. Jäger contrasts hyper-politics to both the post-politics of neoliberalism and the mass institutional politics of the traditional left. Hyper-politics has low-stakes for entry, participation, and exit. The result is a stream of fleeting, impermanent political moments that add up to very little. Jäger considers how we might move from hyper-politics back to the mass institutional working-class politics that saw real gains in the past.
Find Anton’s latest Jacobin article here:
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/hyper-politics-annie-ernaux-moralism-identity-media-individualization
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Jen PanAnton JagerHyper-Politics
