From politics of inevitability (of the triumph of liberal democracy) to the politics of eternity (= an cyclical us vs. them understanding of time). Professor Timothy Snyder is a well-known researcher of totalitarianism and I find videos of his lectures and talks which there are many on YouTube very interesting.
A controversial thought: much of the predominant political thinking on Hive is in the second category and of a particularly nihilist variety. Some well-known authors here lean towards an escapist fantasy of an Internet-based "network state" (Hive as an example) replacing the state as it exists today. I believe the nihilists and I agree that the latter is largely nonsense.