🔗 Click the following link to learn more about Philip Morris International’s progress: https://bit.ly/4qEi16d 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y UnHerd’s Jonny Ball meets Anton Jäger. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/how-the-internet-killed-institutions/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com UnHerd’s Jonny Ball meets historian, academic, and author Anton Jäger to discuss his new book ‘Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences’, charting the pronounced shift in engagement and death of political institutions since the 1980s via analysis of movements like Brexit, BLM, and the rise of the far-Right. Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //TIMECODES// 00:00 - 01:45 – Intro: a new era of “hyperpolitics” 01:45 - 03:55 – What is hyperpolitics? Repoliticisation without institutions 03:55 - 04:09 – Sponsor: Philip Morris International 04:09 - 10:49 – 2008 crash, global protests, and Brexit’s roots in austerity 10:49 - 17:40 – Is this the 1930s? Far right rise but weak organisation 17:40 - 22:50 – Corbynism, Labour’s members and the shift to post‑politics 22:50 - 31:06 – From mass politics to post‑politics to anti‑politics 31:06 - 40:27 – Why the populist right is thriving more than the left 40:27 - 48:53 – Political personalities, digital parties and building durable organisations 48:53 - 56:22 – Working‑class realignment and the right’s “pro‑worker” pose 56:22 - 1:02:46 – A way out: reinventing mass politics for the 21st century #UnHerd #AntonJäger #Hyperpolitics