I’ve previously bigged up Stefan Szczelkun’s book The Conspiracy of Good Taste and am pleased to see that his PhD thesis is now online:

1992-1999 Exploding Cinema, culture and democracy

I haven’t had time to check it all out as yet, but a brief conversation in a caff a couple of years back revealed that the main thrust was looking at the way counter-culture or underground organisations worked and disintegrated.

Stefan has been involved personally with enough of this to have some serious insight and there are some background chapters on his involvement with The Scratch Orchestra, self-build, underground publishing and other activities.