The exploration of the dynamics of cultural and artistic transmission has developed into a significant, interdisciplinary research focus in the cultural and art sciences over the past decades. It concerns fundamental processes of communication: the structure and internal conflicts of messages in general. Discussions of transformation, translation, and transmission arise when addressing issues of tradition, knowledge transfer, rhetoric, metaphor theory, projection, affect transfer, the allocation of legal claims, the delegation of power, and the role of media. This volume presents a wide range of scientific disciplines and perspectives to explore the field of resistant communication processes and to uncover the theoretical and artistic scope of transmission dynamics, despite all specific differences.