Mute Vol 2, No. 7 − Show Invisibles? Migration/Data/Work
We are living through an intensification of citizens’, and non-citizens’, visibility to capital. Database convergence, states of emergency and points-based immigration systems destroy the legal and informational grey zones in which the poor shelter and organise. As black economies and shadow sectors are exposed to the light of networked information in the interests of population management, border enforcement, welfare clamp-downs and, above all, profit, what are the risks and advantages of visibility? What do political and artistic representation and rights have to offer the illegal and ‘invisible?’.
2008-01, ISSN 1356-7748-207 & ISBN 978190649694
FURTHER DESCRIPTION
Bang to Rights
Camille Barbagallo and Nic Beuret critique amnesty for illegal immigrants
Organising in the Dark
Four migrants' rights organisers talk to Jaya Klara Brekke about the politcs of illegality and visibility
Putting Illegality to Work
Seemab Gul on law, migration and labour flexibility in the UK
Points-Based Peonage
Javier on the Uk's draconian new points-based immigration system
No One is Illegal
Unterschreber on how campaigns for rights overshadow 'illegals' ability to self-organise
Visualising Invisibility
Jennifer Thatcher reviews Port City and considers artistic representations of migrants
Doing it For the Kids
Elizabeth Povinelli on an anti-aboriginal state of emergency in Australia
Plague Politics
C.L-Stravides on bird-flu panic, pandemics and population management
The Spine
Damian Abbott joins-up the NHS's centralised database with behaviour control and privatisation
Twilight of the Swampoid
Single White Adult Middle Class person? Look out, RFID is coming to get you
Irony 2.0
Pil and Galia Kollectiv asks what becomes of ironic distance and critique in the viral world of Web 2.0
Illustrations
Lee Galpin, Harrisson, Seemab Gul, Benedict Seymour
ISSN 1356-7748-261
ISBN 978-1-906496-9-4
Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
108 pages