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The New Politics of Visibility : Spaces, Actors, Practices and Technologies in The Visible / edited by Andrea Mubi Brighenti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Intellect, [2022]
- Summary:
- This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an array of topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance, ranging from urban public space to the media and the new media in contemporary society. 7 b&w illus.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 4 Mediated Visibility and Recognition: A Taxonomy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 8 Reframing Marginality in Trans Politics: Towards an Ethics of Differentiation
- Recognition
- Visibility
- Marginal
- (Im)possible difference
- 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
- 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
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brighenti, Andrea Mubi The New Politics of Visibility
- ISBN:
- 9781789385755
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