Based upon Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Author as Producer", a whole range of theorists have developed approaches towards an aesthetics of production. The texts of this issue investigate how Benjamin's arguments may serve as a ground for reflecting and theorizing current art practices.

What about political art's function of "supplying the capitalist production apparatus, not changing it"? What about artistic methods of subverting cooptation after Brecht and Tretjakov? What about new models of artists/intellectuals as producers and "specialists" rather than experts for the universal?

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