The yellow vests and Facebook. A social form correlative to a media form

Abstract

We present the movement of the yellow vests as social form correlative of the technological form of the social network Facebook and made possible by it as an "electric medium" (McLuhan, 1994). We define the concepts of digital mobilization and digital militant showing their technological conditions of possibility. Digital militantism, delocalized and in real time, apart from any institution, is a social form independent of its content, it is the generator of the polarization of the contemporary world and is correlative with the digital world as the age of anger and anguish. Facebook is the technological a priori of French militantism, social networks as a whole are the historical a priori (Foucault) of the era of anger.