Schizoradio als Schizoanalyse der Massenmedien

Freies Radio und Europa nach 1968

Abstract

Schizoanalysis finds its origins in the writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) and marks a distinct cut in the historization possibilities of the avant-garde movements of the Long 20th Century and is accompanied by a seminal understanding of aesthetic subjectivation. On this basis, a historical narrativization is developed, and an accompanying periodization for schizoradio is put forward for discussion. Five periods are proposed: ‘schizoradio avant la lettre’ (1871- 1968), ‘therapeutic schizoradio’ (1956-1982), ‘autonomous schizoradio’ (1976-1982), ‘nomadic schizoradio’ (1985-2011), and ‘transversal schizoradio’ (2001-2018). Each of these periods is contextualized and discussed in a separate section. Moreover, schizoanalysis is accompanied by an expanded concept of colonialism, which, for Deleuze and Guattari, should be seen in congruence with European culture and expressed in terms of an internal colonization through the Oedipus complex. At the latest in A Thousand Plateaus (1980, Mille plateaux), Deleuze and Guattari then put their hopes in the American counterculture. In America, they argue, there are fewer trees than roots, and those roots are found preferentially in the counterculture – while Europe is associated with a male, white, adult, urban, heterosexual, and standard-language norm. This is the field of tension in which a historical periodization of schizoradio is developed.