*CFP* “POST-MASS-MEDIA AND PARTICIPATION”, SPECIAL ISSUE, GERMAN JOURNAL FOR MEDIA STUDIES

Félix Guattari follows a clear agenda with his notion of post-mass-media: his entire project of the three ecologies aims at human relations with the socius, the psyche and ‹nature› (Guattari, 2000, p. 41; see also 2013, p. 26–27). Those deteriorating relations, ignored by "[s]tructuralism and subsequently postmodernism" in all their passivity, will have to be thought in new and different ways (ibid.). In order to ‹kick the habit› of sedative discourse, particularly ‹the fix› of television Guattari suggests to view the world "through the interchangeable lenses" of the three ecologies: social ecology, mental ecology and environmental ecology (p. 41–42). Post-mass-media, as an "essential programmatic point for social ecology", is a goal of working both with and on the three ecologies (p. 61). This goal would be reached when the media will be reappropriated by a multitude of subject-groups capable of directing its resingularization (ibid.). Guattari’s intention is for the term to be programmatic and understood as a concept for political action. The focus of the term – that is, the ‹post-› of post-mass-media – lies in the active appropriation of the spaces of mass-media through subject-groups.