Nine interdisciplinary essays employ, explore, and critique the analytical category and the practical stakes of visibility.
Not only does visibility matter to politics, but it is an increasingly intrinsic constituent element and a crucial asset of it. Accordingly, the challenge to social science is that of understanding how the new institutional, urban, and technological settings are reshaping the organization of the visible.
Ranging from urban public space to the new media and social media platforms, a team of distinguished scholars and researchers here addresses a vast terrain of inquiry by joining together original theoretical elaboration with careful empirical studies. The result is a thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavor, conducted with passion and insight. The New Politics of Visibility comprises nine original interdisciplinary chapters that analyze topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance and society. The transformations of urban space and the working of new media form a core concern recurring through many of the essays but is by no means the sole topic, as other essays address the politics of visibility in crucial cultural spheres, including gender relations and professional life.
Author(s): Andrea Mubi Brighenti (editor)
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Bristol
Front Cover
Half Title
The New Politics of Visibility: Spaces, Actors, Practices and Technologies in the Visible
Copyright Page
Table of contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Issues in the Visible
Outline of the volume
Notes
References
1 The Political Geometries of Visibility: Ranks of Seeing in the Digital Age
Principles of seeing and being seen in the digital age
Geometries of visibilities as a social system
The ladder of visibility
Conclusions: Visibility as a management tool
References
2 Coded Visions: Datafied Visibilities and the Production of Political Futures
Introduction
Conceptualizing visibility as a mode of governance
The performativity of governance
Seeing, knowing, governing: An analytical framework
Seeing: Observations and information reductionism
Knowing: Visualizations and attention to deviations
Governing: Proactive future orientations and the modification of behaviour
Empirical illustrations
A politics of prediction
Seeing crime
Knowing crime
Governing crime
A politics of conversion
Seeing radicalization
Knowing radicalization
Governing radicalization
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
3 Urban Information Environmentalism
Disclaimer amid distancing
Fascination with surroundings
Text in the city
Distraction engineering
The case of signage law
What is information environmentalism?
Visibility in context
Acknowledgement
References
4 Mediated Visibility and Recognition: A Taxonomy
Introduction
The ethics of visibility, the epistemology of recognition
Visibility regimes
Recognition theory
How visibility prefigures recognition
Three mediated visibility regimes and their differing regimes of recognition
Broadcast visibility, representational recognition regime
Networked visibility, enabling (mis)recognition regime
Algorithmic visibility, paradoxical recognition regime
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 The Democratization of Visibility Capital: Face in the Age of Its Automated Technical Reproducibility
Asymmetry and recognition
What is visibility capital?
Democratization through the suppression of intermediaries
Reconstructing visibility privileges
From time to space
References
6 Rewilding the City: Urban Life and Resistance across and beyond Visibility
Introduction: The conundrums of visibility
Calculative relations
The twists and turns of urban relationalities
Relations as inhabitants
The conundrums of orientation
Unsubsumable visibilities: Stories that the city tells to itself about itself
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Strategies and Tactics of Visibility: The Micro-Politics of Vulnerable Migrant Groups during the Pandemic in Brussels
Visibility in public space
Visibility and invisibility during the lockdown
Strategies, tactics and micro-politics
Conclusion: The micro-politics of visibility
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
8 Reframing Marginality in Trans Politics: Towards an Ethics of Differentiation
Recognition
Visibility
Marginal
(Im)possible difference
Notes
9 Open Science as an Engine of Anxiety: How Scientists Promote and Defend the Visibility of Their Digital Selves, While Becoming Fatalistic about Academic Careers
Introduction
Hypervisibility in science – a caricature of then and now
Visibility, digital selves and background emotions
Diminishing trust, anxiety and fatalism as background emotions
Anticipating fifteen minutes of fame
Covering all your digital bases
Hypervisibility as a blessing or a curse
Open science as a lukewarm utopia
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Contributors
Index
Back Cover
