How must we look back in order to see something and sharpen our perspective on the present and the future? The contributions in this volume, published in honor of Sigrid Schade, relate to multifaceted histories of discourse at the intersections of art, culture, and media studies. They illuminate artistic, cultural, and social practices and orders as negotiation spaces for complex structures of meaning and relationships. Featuring contributions from Mieke Bal, Kerstin Brandes, Vera Frenkel, Sabine Gebhard-Fink, Insa Härtel, Karin Harrasser, Kornelia Imesch, Carmen Mörsch, Irene Nierhaus, Griselda Pollock, Dorothee Richter, Steffen Schmidt, Philip Ursprung, and Silke Wenk.