Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution

Evidence

Along the same line should be mentioned the manner in which programs are listened to in Kabylia. In groups of scores and sometimes hundreds around a receiver, the peasants listen religiously to “the Voice of the Arabs.” Few understand the literary Arabic used in these broadcasts. But the faces assume a look of gravity and the features harden when the expression Istiqlal (Independence) resounds in the gourbi (shack). An Arab voice that hammers out the word Istiqlal four times in an hour suffices at that level of heightened consciousness to keep alive the faith in victory. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The Fifth Column is an impossibility in Algeria. It is the recognition of this fact that leads sociologists to rediscover the old explanation according to which the “native” is inaccessible to reason or to experience. War specialists observe more empirically that these men have an iron morale or that their fanaticism is incomprehensible. The group considered as a whole gives the impression of supplementing what it gets in the way of news by an assurance more and more cut off from reality. These manifestations, these attitudes of total belief, this collective conviction, express the determination of the group to get as close as possible to the Revolution, to get ahead of the Revolution if possible, in short to be in on it. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 283 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution; Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340; French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 299 (+6 more)

Related

• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.92)
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith (similarity 0.89)
• Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast (similarity 0.89)
• Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (similarity 0.88)
• Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian leadership bombed Radio-Alger but failed to silence it permanently (similarity 0.84)
• News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian listeners collectively reconstructed and even invented the Voice’s news (similarity 0.83)
• Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. (similarity 0.83)
• French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. (similarity 0.81)
• Even jamming static was reinterpreted as evidence of the resistance’s presence. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians’ stated radio objections were rationalizations of the occupier’s rejection (similarity 0.81)
• Liberation struggle transformed the radio from submission tool into weapon (similarity 0.80)
• Claiming to hear the absent radio voice became a truth-bearing act of resistance. (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian Revolution transformed veil practices without ever planning to. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution #corroborates (0.60)
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith #exemplifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340
• Total faith in good news expresses determination to be in on the Revolution #corroborates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 283
• Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast #expands (0.40)
• French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. #qualifies (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 299