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.

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.

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Chapter 1: Media (An)archaeology, Radical Media Ecologies and Popular Knowledges Introduction: The Long 1970sConcepts of Media Archaeology, Anarchaeology and Media EcologiesRadical and Guerrilla MediaPopular 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 AmericaBrigate Rosse and Armed Struggle in ItalyThe ‘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 RadioIntroduction: Radical Politics, Bifurcations and the EventItalian Workerism and Autonomia1977 as Nexus: The Movement of 1977, Creative Autonomia and PunkRebellious Radio from the Avant-garde to Free RadiosMedia beyond ‘Socialist Strategy’: Enzensberger, Baudrillard and the Genealogy of Radio AliceThe Media Ecology of Radio AliceChapter 4: Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinema and the Anarchive FilmIntroduction: Destroying the (Cinema) Apparatus, Transforming the (Audiovisual) Machine Militant Anti-Cinemas in the 1970sMinor Anti-Cinemas: Anti Psychiatric, Heretical, Feminist and PostcolonialThe Counter Public Sphere, Anarchive Film and Documentary SymptomatologiesChapter Five: Ecologies of Radical and Guerrilla TelevisionIntroduction: Cinema/Television/Video or Cain vs. Abel Revisited Sonimage, Fassbinder and Radical Auteur TelevisionEcologies of Guerrilla Television: Ant Farm, Raindance Corporation, TVTV and Radical SoftwareConclusions: Terms of Cybernetic Warfare