Hyperpolitics Quotes

“Next to sex, the activity combining bodily experience and intense emotion to the highest degree is the participation in a mass demonstration at a time of great public exaltation.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“Another creature from the twentieth century that has begun once again to stretch out its claws also appears to be a grin without a cat.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“The United States remains the only advanced industrial nation without a public health system.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“In a sense, one might say that it was the success of right-wing antipolitics that gave birth to hyperpolitics.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“The left, by contrast, depends more heavily on mobilization and sustained participation—as Engels previously put it, workers “cannot do without a strong organization, well-defined by rules,” and left-wing parties require what Gramsci called “a collective will, which has already been recognized and has to some extent asserted itself in action.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“The Trump presidency, Snyder wrote after the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented “the original sin of American history in the post-slavery era, our closest brush with fascism so far.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“In the United States, middle-class families’ flight to the suburbs, beginning in the 1960s, left many in neighborhoods exclusively designed for motorists, without footpaths.”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences

“COVID was “a banal virus, unglamorously related to some obscure flu-like illnesses, with poorly understood survival conditions, unclear characteristics—sometimes benign, sometimes deadly, not even sexually transmissible: in short, a virus without qualities.”28”
― Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences