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Why everything is hyperpolitical now (with Anton Jäger)

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The Post-Politics Dilemma and Hyper Politics

In post politics you have a kind of division between political will formation and policy which was always there but the division now becomes the policy. Hyper politics is strange in that it seems to rebel against the separation where it has an anti-technocratic bent or makes certain claims in the redistribution of power. It doesn't actually have a clear model on how you collectively aggregate individual wills into a collective will and then translate into policy. So what often happens and you very clearly see this in the terms of climate strikes is that there's almost a paternalistic relationship to powerwhere they march on a certain institution.

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