Parties function as deposit banks converting public rage into political capital

Evidence

If, to borrow Sloterdijk’s formulation, parties serve as “deposit banks for public rage” that collect affects and convert them into political capital, how would the established parties relate to the movements, and vice versa? And, most importantly, how would these movements grapple with the Putnamite slump in civic activity? — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Directly rhymes with the reader’s stated theme that hollowed-out mass institutions once converted feeling into force — Sloterdijk’s metaphor is the same conversion mechanism. — connects to: Political parties weaponize conversion bills to outmaneuver each other. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 255