Internet memes used to be funny, but somewhere in the mid-2010's, a darker dimension surfaced. This editorial explores this ‘reactionary turn’ in digital culture through a collection of articles and commentaries on ‘the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures’. In the special theme, these range from commentaries on how misogyny and hate speech exploit platform affordances to articles tracing the growth and spread of arcane memes and anti-vaccine discourse on Reddit and Telegram. While these phenomena might elsewhere be labeled as instances of misinformation, the editorial frames them in terms of ‘reactionary sensemaking’, in which digital subcultures form communities in reaction to a perceived loss of meaning and out of a shared antipathy to ‘mainstream’ culture. Methodologically, the editorial situates these studies in terms of a broader ‘micropolitical’ research tradition that extends from Latour and Deleuze back to Tarde.

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反动意义建构：绘制网络反对派亚文化的微观政治

互联网迷因曾经很有趣，但在 2010 年代中期的某个时候，一个更黑暗的维度浮出了水面。这篇社论通过一系列关于“网络对立亚文化的微观政治”的文章和评论，探讨了数字文化中的这种“反动转向”。在特别主题中，内容包括对厌女症和仇恨言论如何利用平台可供性的评论，以及追踪 Reddit 和 Telegram 上神秘模因和反疫苗言论的增长和传播的文章。虽然这些现象在其他地方可能被贴上错误信息的标签，但这篇社论将它们定义为“反动意义建构”，即数字亚文化形成社区，以应对感知到的意义丧失以及对“主流”文化的共同反感。从方法论上来说，这篇社论将这些研究置于更广泛的“微观政治”研究传统中，这一传统从拉图尔和德勒兹一直延伸到塔德。