This term "technoanarchy" seems to be extremely fitting to what Youngblood is implying. He describes a new frontier of filmmaking that moves from being informative to becoming entertaining, as television has become the newest means of mass communication. This releases film from its traditional, realistic state to a new anything-goes state of "technoanarchy" that allows the artist to communicate cinematic experiences to the viewer.
Youngblood also has a very Freudian manner of thinking when he relates cinema and television to body and mind. "Humanity extends its video Third Eye to the moon and feeds its own image back into its monitors. "Monitor" is the electronic manifestation of the superego. Television is Earths superego."
I also found it amusing when the book referred to Andy Warhol's recent work. Gotta love 1970.
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