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’?

Contents of this cluster

1. Editorial Mute 2 #7
2. Bang to Rights
3. Putting Illegality to Work
4. Points-based Peonage
5. No One Is Legal
6. Visualising Invisibility
7. Doing it for the Kids
8. Plague Politics
9. The Spine
10. Twilight of the Swampoid
11. Irony 2.0
12. Organising in the Dark: Interviews about Migrants’ Struggles