> Questions of what people own and control are increasingly replaced by questions of who or what people are, replacing the clash of classes with the collaging o

> Questions of what people own and control are increasingly replaced by questions of who or what people are, replacing the clash of classes with the collaging of identities. This is the main issue as far as I'm concerned. What the author refers to as hyper-politics is basically the unfortunate and dangerous re-emergence of transcendental concerns into the strictly temporal mechanisms of 20th century political organization. This is extraordinarily concerning. For more on the emergence of contemporary hyper-politics from an American perspective, I found Joshua Mitchell's "American Awakening" particularly helpful.