Roddy Brett explores the haunting legacy of enforced disappearance as a tool of political violence, particularly in Latin America. He examines the psychological and societal impacts on the families of the disappeared, delving into their daily rituals of hope and despair. By analyzing the intersection of state terror, genocide, and the denial of bodies, he calls for a deeper understanding of the human dimensions of disappearance and a more critical engagement with this crime a

In this evocative essay, Terrell Carver explores the disturbing power of political violence, memory, and absence. He examines how violence typically communicates through visibility and how disappearance as a strategy upends that logic. Focusing on Argentina’s “disappeared” and the symbolic resonance of everyday memorials like the baldosas por la memoria, Carver asks: How can we know and relate to the violence we haven't seen? How do we remember what was meant to be erased?