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Guerrilla networks : an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies
Title
Guerrilla networks : an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies / Michael Goddard.
ISBN
9789089648891
9089648895
9789048527533
9048527533
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups -ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture- and radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
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Electronic version: 9789048527533
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 18, 2019
Series
Recursions : theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-352) and index.
Contents
1. Media (An)archaeology, Ecologies, and Minor Knowledges
Introduction: The Long 1970s
Concepts of Media Archaeology, Anarcheology and Media Ecologies
Radical and Guerrilla Media
Popular Cultures, Minor Subjugated Knowledges and Expressive Machines
2. Armed Guerrilla Media Ecologies from Latin America to Europe
Introduction: Contra `Mass Mediated Terrorism'
Revolution in the Revolution: The Urban Guerrilla Concept from Latin America to Europe and North America
Brigate Rosse and Armed Struggle in Italy
The `Baader Meinhof Complex' and the June 2nd Movement
Weather Variations: Weatherman, the Weather Underground, and the Symbionese Liberation Army
3. Autonomy Movements, the Nexus of 1977, and Free Radio
Introduction: Radical Politics, Bifurcations, and the Event
Italian Workerism and Autonomia
1977 as Nexus: The Movement of 1977, Creative Autonomia, and Punk
Rebellious Radio from Marconi to Free Radios
Media beyond `Socialist Strategy': Enzensberger, Baudrillard, and the Genealogy of Radio Alice
The Media Ecology of Radio Alice
4. Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinemas and the Anarchive Film
Introduction: Destroying the (Cinema) Apparatus, Transforming the (Audiovisual) Machine
Militant Anti-Cinemas in the 1970s
Minor Anti-Cinemas: Anti Psychiatric, Heretical, Feminist, and Postcolonial
The Counter-Public Sphere, Anarchival Film, and Documentary Symptomatologies
5. Ecologies of Radical and Guerrilla Television
Introduction: Cinema/Television/Video or Cain vs. Abel Revisited
Sonimage, Fassbinder, and Radical Auteur Television
Ecologies of Guerrilla Television: Ant Farm, Raindance Corporation, TVTV, and Radical Software
Conclusion: Terms of Cybernetic Warfare.
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