Hyperpolitics

Name: Hyperpolitics
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Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

Anton Jäger

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Verso Books
02 June 2026

Society & Social Sciences; Comparative politics; Marxism & Communism; Trade unions

“Hyperpolitics” describes the paradoxical state of affairs today, in which politicization seemingly has few political consequences. Anton Jager's incisive appraisal sets the benchmark by which future histories of the present will be judged.

Politics is back. After the posthistorical lull of the 1990s and the false dawn of millennial technocracy, contestation has returned centre-stage.

Protests, riots and jacqueries bring citizens off their couches and into the streets, even as social media overruns the embankments of the public and personal. Such actions politicize an ever greater share of experience while lowering the costs of engagement. Yet this spate of activism has seldom translated into more durable forms of collective action—parties, trade unions and civic associations continue to atrophy, even as advertisements of commitment proliferate.

By: Anton Jäger
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Paperback original
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 119g
ISBN: 9781836742074
ISBN 10: 183674207X
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface: Hyperpolitics, USA 1. A Grin without a Cat 2. Putnam from the Left 3. The Anti-Political Decade 4. Escape Routes

Anton Jäger holds a PhD in history from Cambridge and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leuven. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and New Left Review.

Reviews for Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

Striking expressions... make this book a compelling read. It challenges readers to engage seriously with a new phenomenon -- Oliver Weber * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * A sharp and insightful analysis of contemporary political culture -- Konstatin Sakkas * NZZ am Sonntag * Everything strains to be political, yet all activism fizzles out. This book explains why. -- Marc Reichwein * Welt am Sonntag * Hyperpolitics is a very good book... It's very good because you don't need to have joined a party one wild night in 2016 to know that it's true. It's enough to live in the present. -- Nele Pollatschek * Süddeutsche Zeitung * Hyperpolitics is among the best and most dazzling efforts to model the political present in all its maddening strangeness. -- David Wallace-Wells * The New York Times *