This is the abstract for a talk I’ve been invited to give at the one-day conference Post-Platform Media, taking place at the University of Westminster on 15 January 2027, organised by Paul Rekret and Henry Ivry. 'For a New Technology of Philosophy' A launch point for the thinking behind this talk was Anton Jäger’s 2023 book, Hyperpolitics, whose 2026 English edition is proving influential among the British left. Jäger identifies a new political era – hyperpolitics – as coming after the mass politics of the mid-20th century; the desocialised postpolitics of the 1990s, a term also associated with Chantal Mouffe, Slavoj Žižek and Jodi Dean; and the long decade of anti-politics that followed the 2008 financial crash. It’s an intriguing way of describing a moment characterised by the erosion of the parties, trade unions, civic organisations and other forms of collective association through which durable political engagement was once channelled... Continued here: https://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2026/10/14/for-a-new-technology-of-philosophy.html