The end of the postpolitical era coincided with Houellebecq’s renunciation of novel-writing

Evidence

In early 2022, Houellebecq announced that Annihilation would be his final novel. The culmination of postpolitics thus coincided with the completion of an oeuvre. This invites a retrospective on the era he immortalized in his books, one that is fast receding in the rearview mirror. With its passing, the ground gave way under Houellebecq just as it did for Tillmans. We find ourselves in a world unkind to nostalgists and futurists alike. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 87

Categorization

• XREF: Signals the periodization hinge the reader needs: the endpoint of postpolitics and the arrival of hyperpolitics.