Hyperpolitics

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 *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 *Both revelatory and invigorating. Anton Jäger’s nimble and careful reconstruction of the recent past helps us to answer two very pressing questions: What happened to our politics, and what happened to our minds? – Vincent Bevins, author of If We BurnJäger offers an incisive analysis of the contemporary political moment. It’s an urgent and clarifying call to log off and show up. * Publishers Weekly *At a time when the various enthusiasms of the 2010s seem faraway indeed, no matter how low Trump’s approval ratings sink, and when Democrats’ sheer desire to win seems to blot out any questions of long-term reorientation of state and society, Jäger stands out for the sweep and force of his analysis. – Daniel Schlozman * The New Republic *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. * Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2026 *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.