Giuseppe Ballacci and Jan Bíba (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) have published “The Politics of Form: Populism, Technocracy, and the Political Value of Appearances” on the blog of the American Philosophical Association. The authors argue that we can only understand today’s politics if we read political content together with its form: how it is expressed, embodied and staged. They use this lens to question the thesis of “technopopulism”. Populism and technocracy share an anti-pluralist rejection of mediation, but the authors show that they rely on incompatible styles, models of representation and forms of politicisation. This makes any combination of the two unstable, especially in times of crisis, as the case of Andrej Babiš and the Czech ANO movement shows.