Meanings
- uncountableExtreme partisan politics.
Americans are no less polarized now. But the sense that the political was entirely personal, that performing politics was vital, seems to be fading. We are exiting the era of hyperpolitics.
2025 January 25, Ross Barkan, “Goodbye, ‘Resistance.’ The Era of Hyperpolitics Is Over.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
Hyperpolitics confronts us with a new mode of interaction between public and private. It is dynamic, intense, and polarizing, yet also ideologically diffuse, visibly modeled on the fluidity of the online world.
2026, Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences, VersoIn that sense, I agree with [Anton] Jäger’s premise that we are in an era of hyperpolitics. Yet, as a trade unionist who dedicates his life to rebuilding the power of working people, I confront a problem that has led me to cave in to hyperpolitics.
2026 July 28, Mark Bergfeld, “In an era of hyperpolitics, the left needs to organise”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
From hyper- + politics. Popularized by Belgian public intellectual Anton Jäger in Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences (2023).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Hyperpolitik
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