Hyperpolitics politicizes everything yet organizes nothing.

Evidence

It should by now be clear that hyperpolitics does not belong in the remaining quadrant—low politicization combined with high institutionalization (a space better suited to the second, more pacified phase of mass politics). In fact, hyperpolitics is situated in the same quadrant as antipolitics, though it diverges from the variant in several key respects. If antipolitics was initiated by social groups hit hard by the crisis of 2008, now the entirety of the public sphere is politicized. By the same token, while populism attached itself to a recognizable ideological vector, hyperpolitics is a permanently volatile, diffuse phenomenon. Whereas populist parties at least made the first steps towards reinstitutionalization, “hyperpolitical” refers to a general atmosphere rather than to specific actors. In this respect, hyperpolitics represents a redoubling of antipolitics, a mode of viral panic typical of the internet age with its short cycles of hype and outrage. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 217

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of hyperpolitics: same quadrant as antipolitics but universalized, diffuse, and actorless — a redoubling rather than a new category.
• XREF: The internet-age “short cycles of hype and outrage” connects to the reader’s broader curiosity about why total saturation yields so little durable change.