Hyperpolitics

Never have we been aware of so much—corrosive politics, daily catastrophes, celebrity banalities—and known so little. This dizzying and ubiquitous unreality, suggests Anton Jäger, is the era of hyperpolitics * Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Lit Hub *
A text to return to again and again. Hyperpolitics is wide-ranging but never stretched, always plausible. Jäger is a rare meeting of an exciting thinker and a graceful writer * Nesrine Malik, Guardian *
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 *
The potential energy of organized gangs of wine moms is implicit in the new book “Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences,” in which Anton Jäger, a political historian at Oxford, draws a familiar but potent picture of an atomized, reactive, and screen-tethered culture, one lacking the sticky ongoing connections that were facilitated by the union meetings and shop floors and rec halls of yore. * The New Yorker *
What Jäger seeks to understand in Hyperpolitics is the way politics appears to have returned with a vengeance, yet at the same time turned on itself as a form of anti-political rage and hopelessness * William Davies, London Review of Books *
Jäger offers an incisive analysis of the contemporary political moment. It’s an urgent and clarifying call to log off and show up * Publishers Weekly *
Jäger shows that our increasingly saturated discourse prevents radical alternatives from taking shape, leaving us trapped in a hyperpolitical limbo: an eternal present characterized by ‘extreme politicization without political consequences * John Livesey, Jacobin *

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.

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