Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 9y69w
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- ISBN
- 9789089648891
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 140,000-word monograph took six years of research, including primary research into radical 1970s media across radio, music, film, video and television. Engaging with an extensive archive of underground publications and media, assembled by Goddard over many years, the media archaeological approach relates this archive to contemporaneous radical theories and political movements. The research scope enabled Goddard to develop the concept of guerrilla networks to analyse political movements and radical media movements in the same frame. In so doing, the monograph intervenes in academic fields of radical media, media archaeology and media theory, where it has been frequently cited.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 140,000 word monograph contributes to both media theory and studies of radical media and political movements. Methodologically it brought together the aesthetic methodology of media archaeology with a media ecologies approach, mediated through the thought of Deleuze, Guattari and Foucault to analyse both radical political movements and radical movements in the 1970s under the overarching concept of guerrilla networks. Adopting a range of other methods and concepts appropriate to its varied and inter-disciplinary areas of engagement, it argued that the concept of guerrilla warfare informed not only radical political movements in different world contexts but also radical media from political cinema to free radio, punk music and guerrilla television. While several of these phenomena have been researched separately, this is the first study to bring these phenomena together with a range of radical thought and to show how they represented bifurcating potentials of radical counterculture in this decade.
The main findings of the book are the intricate connections and resonances between radical politics, radical media and radical thought, not only in their emergence from the same counterculture but also in their shared attempts to produce transformative effects with both aesthetic and political dimensions. The combination of media archaeological and media ecological methods is uniquely capable of showing the materiality of these connections and contribute to broader discussions of the relations between aesthetics and politics.
Research from the book has been presented at five invited talks in UK universities, at conferences in the Ljubljana, Amsterdam and Sydney, as well as at a range of talks and conferences in Brazil. An extract is available via Non, a popular political philosophy website, who have promoted the book extensively via social media.
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- Non-English
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