An expatriate, on worldwide enterprise travel most of the occasions, arrives on the British Air Way’s flight, rents a Toyota at Hertz, drives down-city to Hilton motels and reaches the room, flips on to Sony TELEVISION and catches the glimpse of the identical flashing indicators of ‘Coca-Cola’ and ‘BMW’ and so forth. The KAF Democracy Repot of 2005 further informs us thus: South Africa enjoys an amazing rage of native and national independent media compared to other nations on the continent. Free trade pacts signed with USA or European Union members will see the breaking down of state-owned or politically related corporations as sole suppliers to government procurement packages.
Extra importantly, Radio Alice and its conflict with the apparatus’s of state management that finally resulted in an enormous wave of repression, demonstrates very clearly how the media are a key web site of struggle over the up to date manufacturing of subjectivity; in Guattari’s phrases, despite its apparent financial and technological backwardness at that time, Italy was the way forward for England, France and Germany.
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