The management of visibilities lies at the core of all forms of social control, whether formal or informal. More precisely, as we will come to see, control consists of a purposeful and contextual asymmetrisation and hierarchisation of visibilities. In Chapter 2, we described recognition and control as two opposite poles of visibility. From this perspective, recognition — together with its alias, emancipation — can at first appear as the opposite of control. However, in practice as well as in theory, these two poles should not be regarded in simply dichotomic terms. To begin with, both are intrinsically modern creations. One could say that while human emancipation through the achievement of egalitarian recognition (the ideal of human dignity) is the political undertaking of modernity, control is its omnipresent socio-technical counterpart. Consequently, some forms of control are implied and required by the very aspiration to emancipation.