Digital (in-)Visibilities: Spatializing and Visualizing Politics of Voice

Abstract

This article focuses on the conditions of migrant (in-)visibilities in digital mediascapes. Addressing the ambivalent and complex communicative architecture of voice in the context of digitization and migration, it tackles three fundamental questions: Does digital visibility contest political silencing of the migrant subject? Is the migrant who speaks also heard? And what kind of recognition do digital visibilities allow for and what kind of misrecognition might they hide? Thinking through Arendt's subjective-in-between (1998), this article reflects on the value of voice beyond its conception as an individual right and as a mediated occasion of appearance.