Main entry:

Goddard, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

Guerrilla networks : an anarchaeology of 1970s radical media ecologies / Michael Goddard.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Recursions : theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-352) and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9789089648891 cloth
9089648895 cloth
e-ISBN
9789048527533
9048527533

Subject:

Radicalism in mass media History 20th century.
Alternative mass media History 20th century.
Terrorism and mass media History 20th century.
Guerrillas History 20th century.
New Left History 20th century.
Nineteen seventies.
Radicalisme dans les médias Histoire 20e siècle.
Médias alternatifs Histoire 20e siècle.
Terrorisme et médias Histoire 20e siècle.
Nouvelle gauche Histoire 20e siècle.
Années soixante-dix (Vingtième siècle)
Film theory and criticism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet *
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Alternative mass media
Guerrillas
New Left
Radicalism in mass media
Terrorism and mass media

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300634
Call No.: BIB 246832
Status: Available