Full Description
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 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 and autonomous movements, 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Chapter 1: Media (An)archaeology, Radical Media Ecologies and Popular Knowledges Introduction: The Long 1970s Concepts of Media Archaeology, Anarchaeology and Media Ecologies Radical and Guerrilla Media Popular Culture, Minor Subjugated Knowledges and Expressive Machines Chapter 2: Armed Guerrilla Media Ecologies from Latin America to Europe and the United States 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 Chapter 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 the Avant-garde to Free Radios Media beyond 'Socialist Strategy': Enzensberger, Baudrillard and the Genealogy of Radio Alice The Media Ecology of Radio Alice Chapter 4: Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinema 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, Anarchive Film and Documentary Symptomatologies Chapter Five: 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 Conclusions: Terms of Cybernetic Warfare
