This paper examines the forms of life established through the visual
governance of the Australian social security mobile app (application)—the Express
Plus Centrelink app. It is argued that the app exceeds established accounts of
juridical and administrative power. The app involves a seeing that is not public, a
responding that is not writing and a de-materialisation of an institution and its
disciplinary apparatus. It is argued that the app creates proto-literate subjects that
are required to respond to a real-time sequence of images in a highly structured and
circumscribed manner to become complicit in the digitalisation of their life.

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• The Visiocracy of the Social Security Mobile App in Australia