title: Managing moods
abstract: The notion of interregnum captures a mood: a sense of change and an anxiety regarding what will come and when. Interregnum is a state of waiting and anticipating, as it, in the Gramscian sense, denotes a period that lies between an old, declining system and an emerging new one. The 2010s entailed recurrent debates regarding debates, with a special focus on the tone and the attitudes of the participants. The metaphor captured and gave expression to media distrust, which in the 2010s became a topi