Index

Contents

Introduction: Co-researching Telestreet as a Form of
Connective Activism 1

1. Making Sense of Telestreet: Three Compositions 19
2. Intimacy and Media Making: A Long History of Delirium, Care,
and Social Reproduction 41
3. Delirium at Work in Berlusconi’s Mediascape 65
4. Activist Energetics in the Information Milieu 85
5. Squatted Airwaves, Hacked Transmission 113
6. Subjectivity, Therapy, Compositionality in the Porous Spaces
of Naples 133
7. Insu^tv, Media Connective 153
8. De/Re/Compositions, in Process 173

Epilogue: Repurposing Is How Connective Activism Happens 193

Acknowledgments 203
Appendix: List of Interviews 205
Notes 207
Bibliography 225
Index 245