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

'Such findings [between intact associational and community life and support of the politics of the right] present a challenge to a thesis arguing that the hyperpolitical era is characterized by repoliticization in an institutional void.‘ (1/2)

‘We find ourselves in a world unkind to nostalgists and futurists alike.’

So far, the book has been a pleasure to read simply in terms of its beat, scope of references, the ease of inferring from prominent works in several languages, the observational and analytical (as opposed to conclusion-led) nature of the text.

‘Instant analysis is always perilous. Like a high-speed camera, histories of the present risk falling prey to the fluidity and indeterminacy of the situation they seek to capture, wedged between impressionistic detail and grand abstraction. It is all the more difficult when the present itself has become so diffuse.’

It is retrospectively heart-warming to learn that there has been some attempt at Remain propaganda, that the argument contra was not treated entirely as self-evident. Yet, those slogans, when approached from a nationalist, local, divorced perspective, could only convincу such reader to maintain a pro-Brexit position. (2/2)

"Tillmans even became involved in mainstream politics, designing a series of posters in 2016 for the campaign to safeguard the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union. 'No man is an island. No country by itself.' 'What is lost is lost forever.' 'It's a question of where you feel you belong. We are the European family.'" (1/2)

‘For fledgling social movements operating in debt-driven service economies, the solidarities of the online world remain an insufficient replacement for those of the local community and workplace.’

This is about the States, but applies elsewhere, too.