Zerstresst!

Fragmentation, simultaneity and overstimulation characterize our present-day world. Events appear in a flood of short messages, shared screenshots, or TikToks. The images in such media are fast, fluctuating, affective – they lead to stress and are stressed in themselves. This volume examines the phenomenon of media overload from an interdisciplinary perspective and proposes a new interpretative model for the visual cultures of our (digital) age with the concept of Zerstressung . Examining (resistant) image and knowledge practices, glitches, the Anthropocene era, and cultures of remembrance, the chapters discuss Zerstressung as an aesthetic as well as a political concept. New aesthetic as well as (image)-theoretical perspectives on stress Examining visual overburdening in digital cultures Establishing the idea of Zerstressung as an aesthetical, political and analytical figure