Whether or not you call it hyperpolitics, or accept his explanations, the kind of personalised, platformed politics Jäger describes and the tendency for movements to emerge explosively and then evaporate as quickly are big issues. In order to understand the emergence of hyperpolitics, he identifies two previous phases coming after the era of mass politics which for him ends in 1989. There was then a decade of anti-politics, featuring mass protest devoid of direction which only morphed into our current condition sometime in the middle or end of the last decade. The anti-Iraq War movement was sustained and deeply political. There is also a varied range of mass protest movements.