It's been a while since I've shared one of the books I select from the @spaceintruderdetector blog, so here's one that looks promising for understanding the underground B culture and how it operated before our internet era.
This is an open-access academic collection that explores the interconnected countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam during the mid-to-late 20th century, focusing on how the "underground" functioned as both a physical space and a metaphorical site for resistance. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar avant-gardism and twenty-first century global urbanism, this interdisciplinary book seeks to create a mirroring effect over the notion of the underground as a driving force in the making of the contemporary European city.
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metap
