to end but a place where creative humans still produced vivid dialogues that could
be shared with others.
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Another example of independent vectors is the stations of the Italian Telestreet
movement, where activists broadcast their own homemade television. Using a TV-
amplifier, normally used on the countryside to boost weak signals to the TV set,
and just reversing the plugs, the TV “pirates” create their own broadcasting system.
Perhaps it is more of a “proxyvision”, than a television, as the broadcast range is
only about a kilometre, but it is sufficient to cover a few blocks in a town (Berardi
2004).
The telestreet signal is too weak to black out the official stations, so it can only sent
in the “shadow” of other channels, on the unused frequencies where there is no
signal from the stronger transmissions. The blanks or “in-betweens” are the home
of the small telestreet channels, where their potential is actualized, as “a technical
project, a political project, [and] a cultural project” (Berardi 2004).
The telestreet movement emerged from the media landscape during the early
2000’s when Prime Minister Berlusconi controlled about 90% of the Italian media
and was virtually unchallenged in the media scene. Autonomous groups or activist
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