My proposed dissertation thesis, tentatively entitled “Micropolitical formations within the ideology of publicness: the potential of ‘minor spaces’”, shares certain affinities with Foucaultian and Deleuzian thought, namely the “physics” of power, territoriality, knowledge production, and subjectivization, that particular regimes of power exercise in maintaining discursive formations and institutional practices traversing sociopolitical order. Why to question publicness? Guy Debord articulated major formula of society of spectacle as “Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear” (1994 [1967]). Few decades later Gilles Deleuze proclaimed that “compared with the approaching forms of ceaseless control in open sites, we may come to see the harshest confinement as part of a wonderful happy past” (1990). Or, Margarida Carvalho, diagnoses as follows: “Monitored, assessed, controlled, divided and owned: such is the complex condition of contemporary space” (2009). If one would accept, that publicness, which today centers around forms of visibility that took new forms and heights in “the digital era”, is this “open space” of appearance where unprecedented confinement and control is taking place, not only then we are forced to rethink normative ideals of public sphere but also to rethink some basic categories of political theory which grounds itself, for the most part, on those ideals. When so much of what used to be called ‘activism’ retreats into a virtual space, it seems the question inevitably becomes is that all there is? If the promise of technology is increasingly doubted in various quarters, it nevertheless persists and frequently becomes naturalized. The discourse of ever expanding field of publicity and visibility holds for some activists the promise that these informational commons will disseminate “the right” ideas to the point of sufficient generalization. However, the flipside is that doing and being in physical space is diminishing and many of the virtual ‘movements’ never go beyond the virtual. My participatory research looks at the few spaces where face-­‐to-­‐face encounters are valued and where affective affinities are formed, which produce micropolitical effects, which may or may not be generalized by various means. If these spaces are not in the “outside” to publicness, I call them partial visibilities that have different relationship to space and temporality than the virtual highways.