The authors of this volume ask whether a departure from 9/11 in recent media offerings is not only possible, but how it can be deliberately facilitated through certain media practices. How do media stop telling the story of the catastrophe? The contributions from the humanities, cultural studies, and media studies examine what remains, what has disappeared, and what changes can be observed: thematic flexibilizations, in which icons, schemas, and topoi of 9/11 are used for other, new topics; generic conventionalizations that raise the question of whether it makes sense to speak of a difference between 9/11 and post-9/11 media; as well as cultural and media-political phenomena that problematize terms like 'trauma' and its processing, as well as 'ideology' and its critique.