Liberation struggle transformed the radio from submission tool into weapon

Evidence

After 1954, the radio assumed totally new meanings. The phenomena of the wireless and the receiver set lost their coefficient of hostility, were stripped of their character of extraneousness, and became part of the coherent order of the nation in battle. In hallucinatory psychoses, after 1956, the radio voices became protective, friendly. Insults and accusations disappeared and gave way to words of encouragement. The foreign technique, which had been “digested” in connection with the national struggle, had become a fighting instrument for the people and a protective organ against anxiety. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 308 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What is involved here is not the emergence of an ambivalence, but rather a mutation, a radical change of valence, not a back-and-forth movement but a dialectical progression. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 342 (#expands, via linked claim)

Under these conditions, claiming to have heard the Voice of Algeria was, in a certain sense, distorting the truth, but it was above all the occasion to proclaim one’s clandestine participation in the essence of the Revolution. It meant making a deliberate choice, though it was not explicit during the first months, between the enemy’s congenital lie and the people’s own lie, which suddenly acquired a dimension of truth. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 304 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial collaborators hallucinated the rebel radio pronouncing death sentences; Revolution transformed radio from tool of domination into nation-builder; Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (+6 more)

Related

• The national struggle transformed the radio from hostile object into protective one (similarity 0.93)
• Revolution transformed radio from tool of domination into nation-builder (similarity 0.91)
• Claiming to hear the absent radio voice became a truth-bearing act of resistance. (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial collaborators hallucinated the rebel radio pronouncing death sentences (similarity 0.86)
• Before 1954 an Algerian radio marked Europeanization and vulnerability (similarity 0.83)
• The liberation radio’s effect was a dialectical mutation, not mere ambivalence (similarity 0.83)
• Owning a radio before 1954 meant surrendering the home to the colonizer (similarity 0.82)
• The rebel radio induced auditory hallucinations in colonists and collaborators (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian leadership bombed Radio-Alger but failed to silence it permanently (similarity 0.81)
• Radios let settlers resist cultural absorption by the native environment (similarity 0.81)
• French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized relation to radio underwent dialectical mutation, not ambivalence (similarity 0.80)
• Clandestine print and radio turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The national struggle transformed the radio from hostile object into protective one #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 308
• The liberation radio’s effect was a dialectical mutation, not mere ambivalence #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 342
• Clandestine print and radio turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 414
• Claiming to hear the absent radio voice became a truth-bearing act of resistance. #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 304
• Owning a radio before 1954 meant surrendering the home to the colonizer #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 318
• The rebel radio induced auditory hallucinations in colonists and collaborators #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 343