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Why everything is hyperpolitical now (with Anton Jäger)

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The Hyper-Politics of the 2010s

In the essay I have a middle section which I look for concrete examples of what mass politics looks like in practice. And one example is the French writer Vijayi Bono who grew up as a gay man in a communist family in post-war France. Party membership although it could fluctuate with something you usually took on for life and the way politics functions is that you basically have this flashing of massive blocks which are themselves quite immobile. So party membership was never purely individual but was heavily conditioned by what political party you belong to. The time horizon of mass politics is inevitably not measured in one media cycle or an electoral cycle or a sort of short, I'd say internet spat but it

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