Hyperpolitics and the History of Political Experience

by Liam Egan

Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics" is a thoughtful analysis of the collapse of political institutions and the rise of fleeting, online-driven political polarization. In his review of the text, Liam Egan argues that Jäger's account draws an accurate picture of how the structure of political experience has changed over history, but its call to revive the era of "mass politics" is a nostalgic wish for an impossible return.

Instead, Hyperpolitics points the way to something new: an account of political experience, and the structure of the world we must build a new politics within.