Anton Jäger's book lauded as 'groundbreaking' in Guardian profile
I am a middle-aged adult with a PhD but I can't read "groundbreaking" books that are being "devoured" without checking in with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social - is it brilliant or terrible? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Heather73I got up to “boho-adjacent” and then closed the browser window.
Jack Liu49If the Guardian is lauding something and saying it's popular with the left I am 100% certain without needing to read the article that it's total fucking horseshit and extremely not leftist.
Kieran36if the new york times is saying things like “among the best and most dazzling efforts to model the political present in all its maddening strangeness”, I'm going to assume it's horseshit, because the nytimes is.
Brian Moritz29Not only that, but I can't *write* anything without hearing their voices in my head.
FUPA Troopa24Oy vey! it's because it sucks. His book sucks
jtunes6.bsky.social16Here we go with the “You’re not allowed to criticize the work, that’s cancel culture!!!” It’s called public discourse. No one gets a free pass. Deal with it. Enter the discourse and don’t whine. No one’s stopping you from reading and repping the book.
Peter250you know this is a lie straight away because there are no new ideas on the left
Andrew Hickey39The description of this book reads very, very, very like "recent history can be divided into roughly four periods: Before I was born; when I was a kid and didn't notice stuff; when I became a teenager and noticed stuff was bad; when I became an adult and noticed saying stuff is bad changed nothing"
Matt Gabriele38listen, I think political scientists should be banned from doing history
Aaron Ross Powell33I've read Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics." I did not find its thesis persuasive.
Vituperative Erb23Any of these names are sufficient for permission to nope out, in combination they are a mandate “My political philosophy is rooted in post-Marxist schizoanalysis” well I’m gainfully employed and have known the love of a woman, these words have no power over me
Paulette Feeney ❌️👑10Nope. I was shamed into reading Hillbilly Elegy (did not make it make ¼ way through), not falling for this again.
Louis Römer8Overheated descriptions of books being devoured, it’s a red fllag
rimidar8To be blunt, when The Guardian is promoting something as being bold and daring political thought, that pretty much tells you what you need to know
🦉6Reading the whole article it sounds like what is interesting and correct about his book is stuff they have been saying on chapo trap house for ten years and what is wrong and bad is “trump is not a fascist”
Brian(Uar, Son of Tuireann)5I read new Warhammer 40k books all the time *shrug*
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
DexterSaysMeow12Sorry. He sounds like another Explaino the Clown to me. For example, he tries to point out as "strikingly similar" and "fleeting" the Black Lives Matter movement - where protests were met violently by our rapidly militarizing police forces, but really only truly slowed by a deadly pandemic -
Serendi Pity8who on the left "devours" his books and which left? Does Hyperpolitics only describe Western trends and if so, then why it's framed as a general truth? Even his depiction of 90's is myopic when one considers Balkans and Post-Soviet Europe... and saying that BLM was similar to J6 is plain wrong
ilikebluethings.bsky.social5"Both sides are the same" plus "racism is just a distraction"? Anyone on 'the left' devouring this shit is gonna be a Republican in five years or less.
Christina2If I understand this right, the left needs to get their hands dirty and organise through new entities, collectively with capital, because - wait for it - capital rules It is possible to establish sustainabilityism through the utilisation of hypercapitalization!? ;)
Dave Andress50Cambridge PhD, Oxford job, the word "climate" appears exactly once in the piece, dismissively. People like this will be preaching at us from the ruins. But we'll be living in them.
al'ein14A concepção europeia de "left" é um chiqueiro imundo. Esse cara compara BLM com a invasão do capitólio em 6/1 como "extremamente similares". É basicamente um Pedro Dória gringo. "left"
Maia9i don't think it says anything about jager but why does this guy talk like chatgpt
Annie Leymarie9"The right are not more organised, more ideologically coherent or more strategic than the left; they're just better funded... [with] capital itself as the overarching organising principle of global politics. Money might not be the only thing talking, but it’s the only thing getting what it wants."
Joshua Livestro4Interesting as always, but the analysis of today’s far right signicantly underestimates its organizational and ideological coherence.
collin cornell3“Temporary hyper-political swarms have taken the place of substantial and secure alliances”
Laura Friedrich Merton3Really interesting. Just bought the book - from Blackwell’s, not the other place 😁
Belgium2he is the son of anna teresa de keersmaeker
free bahruz samadov (mike)2yeah man still batting .000 on this one
Rob Ralston2will be interested to read Jäger's book based on this piece - his argument that we are living in a period of 'hyperpolitics' is persuasive, but I wonder whether this periodization glosses over contemporary climate / environmental movements that are not as fleeting as he might claim
Interesting discussion, at least for the taxonomy of the post cold war era, de-institutionalization/atomization followed by hyper-politicization. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Paul Arzooman4I would say that the hyperpolitics of the right, at least in the US, has brought the intended negative results for everyone even as it's provided them with the only thing they want, a feeling of having gotten revenge against "them".
Happy-go-Loki.2Interesting stuff, though it’s disorienting (for this Earth physicist) to consider only the interior social mechanics without considering the boundary conditions (food and energy resources; looming changes in climate & the energy economy). I suspect it’s hazardous to divorce them.
Hal Espen2The reflexive and sort of vestigial words "by the left" appended at the end of the Guardian headline seems like exactly what this book is critiquing.
