Explainer series: Metapolitics
2025 ~ Self-produced explainer series. Increasingly often, politicians do and say things that are harmful to public debate and democratic society. Why do these antidemocratic sentiments keep growing? Across four episodes, I use the concept of metapolitics — the use of media attention to shift culture rather than just policy — to trace how it happens: from the mechanics of media attention, through the growing role of social platforms, to how far-right metapolitics tends to undermine democracy itself, and what a prodemocratic response could look like. The first episode is finished; the rest are scripted and currently in production.
Introduction of the first episode.
Some stills from the introduction.