Hyperpolitics succeeds mass politics, postpolitics, and antipolitics as a gravitational pole

Evidence

This essay ventures a tentative definition, through the lens of what I term “hyperpolitics.” The concept is meant to make sense of what comes after the mass politics of the short twentieth century (1914–1989), the postpolitics of the “very long” 1990s (1989–2008), and the antipolitics of the 2010s. Attention will also be given to a range of adjacent political forms, from populism to technocracy to millennial socialism. None of these morphologies is exhaustive of the period in which it arose—periodization is rarely so neat—while a vast corpus of empirical studies could be marshaled to evaluate each. Only a small selection will be discussed here. Hyperpolitics denotes a tendency rather than a totalizing style. Nevertheless, this book argues that it constitutes a gravitational pole in the force field of twenty-first century politics. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core periodization and the definition of hyperpolitics as a tendency, not a totalizing style.