Image by Wolfgang Tillmans, titled Love (Hands in Air), taken in 1989.
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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change?
From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilisations of Black Lives Matter, Hyperpolitics follows Anton Jäger as he traces how public life has become saturated with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency – even as the old infrastructures of parties, unions, and civic solidarity have been stripped away.
Revisiting the illusions of the “end of history”, Jäger unpacks the strange forces that rushed in to fill the void: viral outrage, relentless culture wars, and the digital churn of causes that flare brightly and disappear just as fast. He shows how the promises of post-Cold War liberalism dissolved into a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions spill into politics but rarely coalesce into lasting power.
Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to the disenchanted fictions of Houellebecq, Hyperpolitics offers a way to understand a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric feels thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so oddly inconsequential, Jäger provides an essential guide to the contradictions shaping our hyperpolitical moment.
Join Anton Jäger, Vincent Bevins, and Nihal El Assar as they discuss Hyperpolitics and probe the forces transforming public life today – an in-depth conversation about the restless contradictions defining our fragmented, hyper-political age.
From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilisations of Black Lives Matter, Hyperpolitics follows Anton Jäger as he traces how public life has become saturated with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency – even as the old infrastructures of parties, unions, and civic solidarity have been stripped away.
Revisiting the illusions of the “end of history”, Jäger unpacks the strange forces that rushed in to fill the void: viral outrage, relentless culture wars, and the digital churn of causes that flare brightly and disappear just as fast. He shows how the promises of post-Cold War liberalism dissolved into a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions spill into politics but rarely coalesce into lasting power.
Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to the disenchanted fictions of Houellebecq, Hyperpolitics offers a way to understand a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric feels thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so oddly inconsequential, Jäger provides an essential guide to the contradictions shaping our hyperpolitical moment.
Join Anton Jäger, Vincent Bevins, and Nihal El Assar as they discuss Hyperpolitics and probe the forces transforming public life today – an in-depth conversation about the restless contradictions defining our fragmented, hyper-political age.
Bios
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.
Vincent Bevins is a journalist, writer and the author of two books; If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (2023) and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (2020).
Nihal El Aasar is an Egyptian writer, researcher, political analyst, and radio host based in London. She has written about politics, political economy, culture, and literature for various publications.
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07:00 pm
Wed, 18 Feb 2026
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