Postpolitics shifted power toward unelected technocratic institutions

Evidence

Ernaux’s work diagnosed a shuttered, claustral universe in which European citizens found refuge in privacy and seclusion. “In the humdrum routine of personal existence,” she recalls, “History did not matter.” Politics was relegated to the back burner. Technocrats, mostly stationed in central banks and institutions such as the IMF and the European Commission, took the reins. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 64

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete anchor of the postpolitics era: privacy, depoliticized daily life, and central-bank/Commission technocracy displacing elected politics.
• XREF: Directly feeds the core framework the reader must reproduce: 1990s postpolitics = politics off the back burner, technocratic custody.