Activists favor fleeting media actions because institutions can no longer form

Evidence

The result is a preponderance of social media “wars of movement” over institution-building “wars of position,” with the primary forms of political engagement as fleeting as market transactions. This is more a matter of necessity than of choice: the legislative environment for durable movement building remains hostile, and American activists must contend with a vitiated social landscape and an unprecedentedly expansive culture industry. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Gramsci’s wars of movement versus wars of position, and substantiates the reader’s claim that saturation yields little durable change because nothing converts feeling into force.
• DEFINE: Wars of movement vs wars of position is a framework term deployed for the hyperpolitics diagnosis.