Invisibility presents a historically and culturally wide-ranging selection of interventions—by artists, scientists, and activists—exploring the aesthetic politics of invisibility. Marginalized populations have long borne the effects of both invisibility and hyper-visibility—through racial profiling, surveillance, and housing insecurity—and increasingly so in our digital age. For centuries, invisibility has also been mobilized as a tactic of political resistance. The politics of the invisible also characterizes the tragic ecocide that humanity is perpetrating on our planet; even as we finally begin to acknowledge the reality and consequences of climate change, the stubborn invisibility of its causes and temporality remain a constant challenge. Such invisibility demands that we think beyond what we currently know, just as science does when it confronts fundamentally inscrutable phenomena such as black holes.

Invisibility: Powers and Perils Higher Education Curricular Resource