Mass political rebirth after 2008 produced a hybrid surpassing prior postpolitics

Evidence

Yet this new era did not witness an integral rebirth of the mass politics from which the revelers of 1989 were liberated. Their parties had augured the era of postpolitics, in which private lives were separated from public affairs. After 2008, this order began to crack, assailed by diverse and often antagonistic forces. The resulting hybrid has turned out to be forbiddingly difficult to taxonomize. It is political, to be sure, but its modes uneasily complement and supersede the postpolitics of the 1990s, reuniting private and public in ways the classical age of democracy could not have expected. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘postpolitics’ as the separation of private from public affairs — a load-bearing term for the book’s periodization.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core interest: how hyperpolitics reunites private and public without reviving mass institutions. — connects to: The 2008 crash accelerated a decades-long hollowing out of party democracy — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 98