Editor - Jyoti Mistry
First, I want to acknowledge Temi Odumosu, co-convener of this strand, whose breath of expertise and meticulous curatorial eye in the programming of the Aesthetics strand for the Violence Conference and contributed to the dynamic input at each of the conference sessions. This selection of contributions has been developed further for this issue, expanding on the questions raised during the presentations. The contributors have attended to aesthetic forms that capture the entangled relationship between the spectacle of violence as radically disruptive intervention in human experience on the one hand, and its “naturalized,” pervasive presence in artefacts and objects as well as social gestures in daily life, founded in historical conditions and contemporary political circumstances on the other hand.