This paper explores the notion of visibility as a recontextualising principle, especially in the era of the political New Right. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Bernstein, Legitimation Code Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis, the paper aims to illuminate the relationship of visibility – invisibility as a dialectical, relative (+/-C, +/-F) and explanatory concept additional to theories of Legitimation, Specialisation and Autonomy. More specifically, it can be argued that the most significant principle of recontextualisation and legitimation – i.e. when the recontextualising processes are regulated by the New Right – is a highly classified and strongly framed visibility (+C, +F) of epistemic–social–pragmatic relations.