This paper seeks to expand popular geopolitics in line with the digital worlds in which many of us now live. By interpreting geopolitics as a method of cultural (re)production, it becomes a creative tool that can be used to shape and elevate the affective appeal of content. Digital technologies are centrally implicated in the production of such content. By decoupling space and time from their physical anchors in the real world, digital technologies imbue them with a creative latency that can be deployed in both agentic and affective ways. Specifically, decoupling creates spatio-temporal openings that offer new opportunities for content to be territorialised, and for artists and audiences to be engaged. Digital geopolitics thus considers the ways in which the decoupling of space and time can foreground new types of digitally mediated geopolitical praxis. Through an analysis of music videos exchanged between two grime artists involved in a “clash,” I show how digital technologies enable them to mediate between the different spatio-temporal logics of the digital and real worlds. Doing so reifies the affective power of space, and the expansive role of popular geopolitics in the digital age.

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冲突密码，传染性内容：grime 的数字地缘政治

本文旨在根据我们许多人现在生活的数字世界来扩展流行的地缘政治。通过将地缘政治解释为一种文化（再）生产方法，它成为一种创造性工具，可用于塑造和提升内容的情感吸引力。数字技术主要涉及此类内容的制作。通过将空间和时间与其在现实世界中的物理锚点解耦，数字技术为它们注入了创造性的延迟，可以以代理和情感方式进行部署。具体来说，解耦创造了时空开放，为内容的领域化以及艺术家和观众的参与提供了新的机会。因此，数字地缘政治考虑了空间和时间的脱钩可以推动新型数字化地缘政治实践的方式。通过对参与“冲突”的两位 Grime 艺术家之间交换的音乐视频的分析，我展示了数字技术如何使他们能够在数字世界和现实世界的不同时空逻辑之间进行调解。这样做具体化了空间的情感力量，以及流行地缘政治在数字时代的广泛作用。