Swarthout’s Reviews > Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences > Status Update

The life-worlds of the online are the primary environment for this sort of deinstitutionalized, impermanent engagement, offering repertoires of social expression that require little to no long-term obligation. Atomization and acceleration go hand in hand: people are lonelier in the new century, but also more agitated; more atomized, but also more connected; angrier, yet more disoriented.