Hyperpolitics

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The potential energy of organized gangs of wine moms is implicit in the new book "Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences," in which Anton Jaeger, 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 * Hyperpolitics 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 * What Jaeger seeks to understand in Hyperpolitics is 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 * Jaeger 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 * At a time when the various enthusiasms of the 2010s seem faraway indeed, no matter how low Trump's approval ratings sink, and when Democrats' sheer desire to win seems to blot out any questions of long-term reorientation of state and society, Jaeger stands out for the sweep and force of his analysis. -- Daniel Schlozman * The New Republic * Jaeger offers an incisive analysis of the contemporary political moment. It's an urgent and clarifying call to log off and show up. * Publishers Weekly * A text to return to again and again. Hyperpolitics is wide-ranging but never stretched, always plausible. Jaeger is a rare meeting of an exciting thinker and a graceful writer -- Nesrine Malik * Guardian * Never have we been aware of so much-corrosive politics, daily catastrophes, celebrity banalities-and known so little. This dizzying and ubiquitous unreality, suggests Anton Jaeger, is the era of hyperpolitics. -- Most Anticipated Books of 2026 * Lit Hub * Striking expressions... make this book a compelling read. It challenges readers to engage seriously with a new phenomenon -- Oliver Weber * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * A sharp and insightful analysis of contemporary political culture -- Konstatin Sakkas * NZZ am Sonntag * Everything strains to be political, yet all activism fizzles out. This book explains why. -- Marc Reichwein * Welt am Sonntag * Hyperpolitics is a very good book... It's very good because you don't need to have joined a party one wild night in 2016 to know that it's true. It's enough to live in the present. -- Nele Pollatschek * Sueddeutsche Zeitung * Both revelatory and invigorating. Anton Jaeger's nimble and careful reconstruction of the recent past helps us to answer two very pressing questions: What happened to our politics, and what happened to our minds? -- Vincent Bevins, author of <i>If We Burn</i>