Forensic Aesthetics

While the latter part of the 20th century may have been labelled the "era of the witness", the 21st century privileges forensics. This forum considers the aesthetic dimensions of forensics: form, presentation, delivery and theatricality.
http://www.veralistcenter.org/currentprograms/?p=2854
http://www.veralistcenter.org/currentprograms/?p=2841 
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"Etymologically, forensics refers to the “forum,” and to the practice and skill of making an argument before a professional, political, or legal gathering. Forensics has always been part of rhetoric, but its domain includes not only human speech but also that of objects. In forensic rhetoric, objects can address the forum. Because objects do not speak for themselves, there is a need for “translation” or “interpretation” – forensic rhetoric requires a person or a set of technologies to mediate between the object and the forum, to present the object, interpret it and place it within a larger net of relations."