Antipolitics offers only coercive traditionalism and fails to meet its promises

Evidence

By the time of Platform (2001), however, the party is already nearing its end, and an inescapable atmosphere of paranoia has kicked in—Islamic terrorists attack a Thai beach resort the dreamy Westerners have built for themselves. In Submission (2015), the hitherto peripheral threat turns into a frontal assault when Islamists take over the French state and found a caliphate on the Seine. We have awakened from our postpolitical reverie, but the alternative that Houellebecq imagines is a regressive traditionalism with no popular appeal, workable only through blackmail and open coercion. Antipolitics cannot fulfil the expectations it generates. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 81

Categorization

• DEFINE: Anchors antipolitics as reactionary pseudo-traditionalism, one of two successors to postpolitics.
• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s central claim that antipolitics succeeded postpolitics but proved incapable of satisfying the expectations it raised.