Hyperpolitics is intense and polarizing yet ideologically diffuse political saturation

Evidence

Hyperpolitics confronts us with a new mode of interaction between public and private. It is dynamic, intense, and polarizing, yet also ideologically diffuse, visibly modeled on the fluidity of the online world. While Jürgen Habermas sees in social media the signs of a new structural transformation of the public sphere, the 2020s have brought repoliticization under radically altered conditions. Postpolitics is indeed over, finished off by the antipolitical energies released in the 2010s. Politics once again intrudes into private life, culture, even the economy. “Today, everything is political,” Adam Tooze observed in a 2023 interview. “From an American perspective, the neoliberal attempt to depoliticize the economy has failed.” “Almost everything about business today is political,” the Harvard Business Review reported 8in 2022, and “choices that may have been clear-cut in purely economic terms … can now easily become complicated by politics.” — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hyperpolitics as dynamic polarization without ideological coherence.
• XREF: Quotes Adam Tooze and a journalist to evidence the everything-is-political claim — reader can trace these contemporary sources.