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Anti-Politics & Beyond: Munich Book Launch
🕑 Added 2022-06-10 10:59:40 +0000 UTCIf the End of History was characterised by post-politics, and the 'populist decade' of the 2010s dominated by anti-politics, then how should we understand more recent phenomena? Are the following of a qualitatively different nature to anti-politics, namely: the intensification of culture wars, growing polarisation that does not always align neatly with class, of increasingly hysterical and personalised politics, and of the competition between escalating emergency politics?
To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with historian of political thought, Anton Jäger at the Monacensia in Munich.
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dshamz_
Not sure if you guys have heard about this but on the subject of the current success and failure of anti-politics (maybe?) - in the Canadian province of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party and their pseudo-populist candidate Doug Ford (not to be confused by his much more effectively populist brother, Rob Ford, the late crack smoking mayor of Toronto) were re-elected a few weeks ago. Ford bungled COVID in every way imaginable, first by initially implementing a non-sensical and erratic lockdown policy with no rhyme nor reason to it which angered liberal progressives, and secondly by extending these lockdowns pretty much indefinitely, thus angering a substantial section of his own base. Turnout dropped 13 percentage points to 43%, the lowest in Ontario history. Ford is already remembered as doing a ‘decent job’ handling COVID, contrary to all reporting from all sides over the past two years. Bizarre stuff.
