This chapter explores silence as an active political choice and form of resistance against the compulsory visibility mechanisms of contemporary social policy. Moving beyond traditional conceptions that equate political action with voice and claims-making, the analysis develops silence as a radical alternative that creates spaces of subjectivity outside institutional frameworks. The first section examines the “right to invisibility” as a new political claim that challenges transparency-based democracy, introducing the concept of “recognition without recognizability” in alternative care networks. The second section analyzes informal forms of care that operate through logics of gift and reciprocity rather than documentation and surveillance, developing “communities of invisibility” that function parallel to official institutions. The third section theorizes silence as a political form of “negative resistance” that refuses participation in governance mechanisms while creating autonomous spaces of social organization. Drawing on theories of biopolitics, techniques of the self, and prefigurative politics, the chapter demonstrates how subjects develop “politics of evasion” that constitute neither withdrawal nor direct confrontation, but positive construction of alternative forms of solidarity and care that escape state registration and control mechanisms.

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Silence as Choice: Subjectivity and Resistance

  • Stavros Pantazopoulos

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This chapter explores silence as an active political choice and form of resistance against the compulsory visibility mechanisms of contemporary social policy. Moving beyond traditional conceptions that equate political action with voice and claims-making, the analysis develops silence as a radical alternative that creates spaces of subjectivity outside institutional frameworks. The first section examines the “right to invisibility” as a new political claim that challenges transparency-based democracy, introducing the concept of “recognition without recognizability” in alternative care networks. The second section analyzes informal forms of care that operate through logics of gift and reciprocity rather than documentation and surveillance, developing “communities of invisibility” that function parallel to official institutions. The third section theorizes silence as a political form of “negative resistance” that refuses participation in governance mechanisms while creating autonomous spaces of social organization. Drawing on theories of biopolitics, techniques of the self, and prefigurative politics, the chapter demonstrates how subjects develop “politics of evasion” that constitute neither withdrawal nor direct confrontation, but positive construction of alternative forms of solidarity and care that escape state registration and control mechanisms.