1st Edition

Guerrilla Networks An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies

By Michael Goddard Copyright 2018
358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as 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... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Introduction, Chapter 1: Media (An)archaeology, Radical Media Ecologies and Popular Knowledges, Chapter 2: Armed Guerrilla Media Ecologies from Latin America to Europe, Chapter 3: Autonomy Movements, the Nexus of 1977 and Free Radio, Chapter 4: Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinema and the Anarchive Film, Chapter Five: Ecologies of Radical and Guerrilla Television, Conclusions: Terms of Cybernetic Warfare, Endnotes, Bibliography, Key Film, Television, and Video Cited, Index

Biography

Dr Michael N. Goddard is Reader in Film, Television and Moving Image in the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster. He has published widely on Polish and international cinema and audiovisual culture as well as cultural and media theory. He recently published a book, >Impossible Cartographies> on the cinema of Raúl Ruiz. He has also been doing research on the fringes of popular music focusing on groups such as The Fall, Throbbing Gristle and Laibach and culminating in editing two books on noise, >Reverberations and Resonances.> He is currently working on a book on the British post-industrial group Coil, and beginning a new research project on genealogies of immersive media and virtuality.