From Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics

By: Anton Jäger

In the years before the Financial Crash, technocrats relegated politics to the sidelines of public debate — today, it's back with a vengeance, but not in the way many on the Left had hoped for.

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Halfway through her autobiography The Years, French novelist Annie Ernaux gives her readers a political panorama of the mid-1990s: The rumour was going around that politics was dead. The advent of a ‘new world order’ was declared. The End of History was nigh … The word ‘struggle’ was discredited as a throwback to Marxism, become an […]

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Halfway through her autobiography The Years, French novelist Annie Ernaux gives her readers a political panorama of the mid-1990s: The rumour was going around that politics was dead. The advent of a ‘new world order’ was declared. The End of History was nigh … The word ‘struggle’ was discredited as a throwback to Marxism, become an […]

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Halfway through her autobiography The Years, French novelist Annie Ernaux gives her readers a political panorama of the mid-1990s: The rumour was going around that politics was dead. The advent of a ‘new world order’ was declared. The End of History was nigh … The word ‘struggle’ was discredited as a throwback to Marxism, become an […]

Halfway through her autobiography The Years, French novelist Annie Ernaux gives her readers a political panorama of the mid-1990s: The rumour was going around that politics was dead. The advent of a ‘new world order’ was declared. The End of History was nigh … The word ‘struggle’ was discredited as a throwback to Marxism, become an […]

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