Postpolitics and hyperpolitics share demobilization, hollowed parties, and insulated states
Evidence
Visibly, the terrain of postpolitics shared many key features with the hyperpolitics that would finally come to supplant it: a demobilization and critical weakening of civil society, the hollowing out of parties, the increasing insulation of the state from popular pressure. Insofar as novelty invariably presupposes contrast, why not stick with a more familiar term? — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 218
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes the new term hyperpolitics from existing postpolitics by identifying shared features and prompting what genuinely differs.
- QUESTION: The rhetorical question amounts to a challenge: what does hyperpolitics add that postpolitics lacks? Later paragraphs answer only partially.