Do Your Own Research: Isolated, Scared, and Furious: Welcome to the Age of Hyperpolitics
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In the last decade and a half, society has got vastly more politicised: Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Me Too Movement and many other movements besides mobilised hundreds of millions of people around the world.
So where are the massive organisations that big mobilisations brought in the 20th century? They don’t exist. For all the increased political activity, society hasn’t become much more organised.
This has produced what Anton Jäger calls ‘hyperpolitics’. He’s the author of Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicisation without Political Consequences as well as a columnist at The New York Times and a lecturer at Oxford University.
He explained to Richard Hames how we got so isolated, why fascism isn’t even the biggest threat right now, and whether the worldwide organising around Palestine, anti-ICE uprisings in the US and the Gen Z Revolutions have already hurtled us into yet another era of political struggle.
Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make the modern world possible.
Music by Iglooghost.
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| 0:00.0 | In the shadow of power and one of the richest cities on earth. |
| 0:10.0 | A man dies, homeless and unseen. |
| 0:15.0 | Julie Remish died in an underpass in Westminster, just metres away from the building that govern Britain. Around him were empty |
| 0:23.1 | homes, dark, locked, untouched. How can someone lose everything in the heart of so much wealth? Follow |
| 0:31.8 | that question and it leads to a hidden world of money, secrecy and power, a system that decides who gets a home |
| 0:39.3 | and who doesn't. |
| 0:40.3 | This is the kind of place for that relationship between dirty money and the city and the kind of |
| 0:45.3 | dark money that goes into the political machine kind of mesh. |
| 0:49.3 | Where could this lead? Where does it end? What else can we become desensitized to? I'm Kojo Karam, writer and researcher. |
| 0:57.0 | And since 2018, this story has haunted me. |
| 1:01.0 | Death in Westminster is a four-part series from Navarra Media, produced by Planer B productions. |
| 1:07.0 | The World of Your Counties. Listen to death in the Navarra media |
| 1:20.7 | in the Navarra Media podcast feed. The saying goes, if you want a friend in politics, get a dog. |
| 1:34.3 | But on the left for much of the 90th to 20th centuries, you didn't have to do that, you can just join a party or a union. |
| 1:42.3 | And maybe you're still a member of a party or union now, |
| 1:46.0 | but it's unlikely that it forms the complete world |
| 1:49.0 | that lots of these institutions did in the past. |
| 1:52.0 | Through the late 20th century, we were forcibly individualized. |
| 1:56.0 | But then, around 2010, massive new global protest movements emerged. Occupy, the Arab Spring, |
| 2:04.7 | and Black Lives Matter, which first bloomed in 2014 and then again in 2020. And these movements |
| 2:11.6 | were massive. Tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people were involved in them, but they |
| 2:17.3 | didn't crystallise into new kinds of organizations of people were involved in them, but they didn't crystallize |
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