Focused on the case of Turkey, this article interrogates the relation between populist politics and affective mediations by social media platforms, or, more precisely, the disjunctions between them that result in weaknesses and reconfigurations of populism. It explores the uncertain interplay between the capillary micropolitics of affect mediated by online platforms and the macropolitics of populism as a political project of managing the body politic. Studying two Twitter campaigns, I look at what I call issue crowds that are assembled by hashtags and propagate through memetic, connective logics, but that also feature homophilic disconnections. It is such disconnections rather than the (over)connectedness of the affective crowd, as the liberal critique of populism has it, that endanger democratic possibility. By analysing connectedness and disconnection, this article captures the political possibilities and dangers of affective communication and the transindividual crowd, meanwhile rethinking the liberal critique of populism.

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民粹主义的平台？情感问题人群及其脱节

本文以土耳其为例，审视了民粹主义政治与社交媒体平台的情感调解之间的关系，或更确切地说，是两者之间的脱节导致了民粹主义的弱点和重构。它探讨了在线平台介导的情感微观政治与作为管理身体政治的政治项目的民粹主义宏观政治之间的不确定相互作用。通过研究两个Twitter活动，我看到了我所说的问题人群，这些人群是由标签组成的，并通过模因性，连接性逻辑传播，但也具有同质的断开关系。正是这样的脱节，而不是像民粹主义的自由批判那样，情感人群的（过度）连通性危及民主的可能性。