Price UK £6 EUR £6.7 US/ROW £7.8 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?’

Articles by: Damian Abbott, Camille Barbagallo & Nic Beuret, Leutha Blissett, Javier, Jaya Klara Brekke, Seemab Gul, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Elizabeth Povinelli, C. L-Stavrides, Jennifer Thatcher and Unterschreber