The aim of this special issue is to gather diverse perspectives that help us examine various facets of the dyad of verticality and visibility. Following Wrigley and Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (2016), we intend to bring sky and air into the view of visual sociology and argue that there is more to the sky than phenomenological and geopolitical dimensions (Wrigley 2018). The articles within this issue emphasise the need to rethink the aerial in terms of complex relations between humans, technological artefacts, vertical superstructures, and non-human others to examine the ways they can unsettle notions of aerial biopolitics. In doing so, this collection foregrounds the visual to ask to what end the image of – or efforts to create images through – vertical registers shape our understanding of our increasingly vertical world and the communities and users it engages or impacts upon.

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