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Why everything is hyperpolitical now (with Anton Jäger)

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The Emergence of Hyper Politics

I wonder whether those you could view hyper politics differently if you take your paradigm cases as being the ones where international relations are an issue. I remember when Putin went into Georgia quite briefly there was a big kind of campaign against him doing that and I remember thinking well I don't think Vladimir Putin is going to care about the results of this petition. It just seemed to be like so mismatched the means and the end that it was comical and people ought to have been able to see the comedy of doing it. So one thing that becomes crucial obviously in your account of the emergence of hyper politics is 2008 and financial crisis but I was thinking that an instance of hyper politics in your sense might be

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