"Horror and stridency are phantoms of violence, signs that appear as denial of the real [Social dimension] and as reality of the imagination [Humanistic Dimension]. It is in this double sense, the real and the imaginary, that the book Strident Horrors presents his proposal to analyze violence in a transdisciplinary dialogue. Socially, the dimensions of violence are addressed, from its conceptual-historical debate to the analysis of reality in Mexico. Horror looms as the appearance of the destruction of the social and the cultural structure, in particular the paradox that the destructive violence of the social is the same that founds the social is conjectured. In the humanistic dimension, the chapters give Corpus to open debates in the contemporary world, suggest an aura of understanding: the bodies intervened as an artistic, narrative narrative, resistance and art, justice, evil and identity, represent the opening for the understanding of the social violence." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover.