Why everything is hyperpolitical now (with Anton Jäger)
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The Crisis of Agency
In fact comedy would have been a better mechanism for expressing our sense of hopelessness here and maybe that's particularly clear in these international cases. It feels to people like there's no viable alternative on the horizon or at least there's no way of working within the oligarchic system such as it is to kind of change things dramatically. That also looks like we are kind of realizing that these movements Peter out when we realize that there's no mechanism here for collective action, there's nothing we can actually coherently do. I think what I really take away is that he's talking about a crisis of agency mainly in a sort of economic or social sense but looking at it in a more strict political
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