Bringing together the CRC “Affective Societies” at FU Berlin and the research project “Image Protests on Social Media” at TU Dresden felt energizing from the start, especially because both projects circle around the same big question of how affects and emotions “mobilize” people in our contemporary societies, whether on the streets or through images, memes, videos or texts online. Early on, we had the sense that this question can only be fully explored in an interdisciplinary setting where academics, artists, and activists share their perspectives and might even challenge each other’s assumptions