This article evaluates the role of political mediation played by national and local television networks within the social peripheries of Naples, Southern Italy. In the context of contemporary Italian populism, the management of this medium by simultaneously public and private —as well as formal and informal— power‐holders, such as the neoliberal state and the Camorra (a powerful criminal organization) have increasingly replaced civil society's historical role of mediation between centers and peripheries. The direct participation of the subaltern in the production and circulation of explicitly populist televised content is now strongly promoted and yet informally monitored by the Italian state authorities. The regimes of media production and social representation emerging from these mediatic processes have not triggered crises of cultural hegemony—exercised by the Italian neoliberal “establishment” over the lower classes—but instead furthered the sovereignty of the state and amplified its ability to arouse the political imaginary of both its most marginalized citizens and “middle‐class” cultural operators. Simultaneously, however, these regimes have also spawned new modes of socioeconomic mobility and forms of “political society,” which reproduce the mediacratic features of Italian state power among a plethora of local informal agencies, including ostensible “public enemies” such as the Camorra.

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透过窥镜：当代民粹主义意大利的电视政治

本文评估了意大利南部那不勒斯社会外围国家和地方电视网络在政治调解中的作用。在当代意大利民粹主义的背景下，同时由公共和私人（以及正式和非正式）掌权者对这种媒介的管理，例如新自由主义国家和Camorra（强大的犯罪组织），已日益取代了民间社会的历史。中心与外围之间的调解作用。现在，意大利国家当局大力促进次要部门直接参与明确民粹主义电视内容的生产和发行，但仍对此进行非正式监督。从这些媒介过程中涌现出来的媒介生产和社会代表制政权并没有引发文化霸权的危机（这是由意大利新自由主义对下层阶级的“建制”所实行的），而是进一步增强了国家的主权并增强了其唤起政治力量的能力。想象其最边缘化的公民和“中产阶级”文化经营者。但是，与此同时，这些政权也催生了社会经济流动和“政治社会”形式的新模式，这些新模式在众多地方非正式机构（包括像卡莫拉这样的表面上的“公共敌人”）中再现了意大利国家权力的民主特征。