{"product_id":"hyperpolitics-extreme-politicization-without-political-consequences-9781836742074","title":"Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brilliant, original essay on politics after the end of the \"End of History\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePOLITICS AFTER THE END OF THE END OF HISTORY\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperpolitics \u003c\/i\u003erevisits 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq’s disenchanted fictions, \u003ci\u003eHyperpolitics \u003c\/i\u003emakes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781836742074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: Paperback original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Verso Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x0.8(W)119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 119\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eAnton 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eNever have we been aware of so much—corrosive politics, daily catastrophes, celebrity banalities—and known so little. This dizzying and ubiquitous unreality, suggests Anton Jäger, is the era of hyperpolitics * Most Anticipated Books of 2026,  Lit Hub *\u003cbr\u003eA text to return to again and again. \u003ci\u003eHyperpolitics \u003c\/i\u003eis wide-ranging but never stretched, always plausible. Jäger is a rare meeting of an exciting thinker and a graceful writer * Nesrine Malik,  Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperpolitics\u003c\/i\u003e is among the best and most dazzling efforts to model the political present in all its maddening strangeness * David Wallace-Wells,  The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe potential energy of organized gangs of wine moms is implicit in the new book “Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences,” in which Anton Jäger, a political historian at Oxford, draws a familiar but potent picture of an atomized, reactive, and screen-tethered culture, one lacking the sticky ongoing connections that were facilitated by the union meetings and shop floors and rec halls of yore. * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eWhat Jäger seeks to understand in \u003ci\u003eHyperpolitics \u003c\/i\u003eis the way politics appears to have returned with a vengeance, yet at the same time turned on itself as a form of anti-political rage and hopelessness * William Davies,  London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eJäger offers an incisive analysis of the contemporary political moment. It’s an urgent and clarifying call to log off and show up * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eJäger shows that our increasingly saturated discourse prevents radical alternatives from taking shape, leaving us trapped in a hyperpolitical limbo: an eternal present characterized by 'extreme politicization without political consequences * John Livesey,  Jacobin *","brand":"Anton Jäger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49279508906201,"sku":"9781836742074","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781836742074.jpg?v=1789818552","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/hyperpolitics-extreme-politicization-without-political-consequences-9781836742074","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}