The national struggle transformed the radio from hostile object into protective one

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revolution transformed radio from tool of domination into nation-builder; The settler’s radio functioned as psychological armor against the surrounding native environment; Liberation struggle transformed the radio from submission tool into weapon (+7 more)

Related

• Revolution transformed radio from tool of domination into nation-builder (similarity 0.93)
• Liberation struggle transformed the radio from submission tool into weapon (similarity 0.93)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.85)
• Claiming to hear the absent radio voice became a truth-bearing act of resistance. (similarity 0.84)
• Before 1954 an Algerian radio marked Europeanization and vulnerability (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian leadership bombed Radio-Alger but failed to silence it permanently (similarity 0.82)
• Native non-adoption reinforced the impression of radio as a closed colonial world (similarity 0.82)
• Radios let settlers resist cultural absorption by the native environment (similarity 0.82)
• Owning a radio before 1954 meant surrendering the home to the colonizer (similarity 0.81)
• The liberation radio’s effect was a dialectical mutation, not mere ambivalence (similarity 0.81)
• The settler’s radio functioned as psychological armor against the surrounding native environment (similarity 0.81)
• Clandestine print and radio turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement (similarity 0.81)
• Radio confirmed settlers’ sense of rightful continuity with the conquest (similarity 0.80)
• Post-1954 Europeans recognized an information network in native society that excluded them (similarity 0.79)
• French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution #corroborates (0.85)
• Owning a radio before 1954 meant surrendering the home to the colonizer #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 318
• Clandestine print and radio turned the F.L.N. into a mass movement #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 414
• Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice #expands (0.65)
• Broadcast media can transform political violence into shared national trauma #expands (0.50) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1216