productivists

The institution of polytechnic factographs, production facilities in which Soviet workers could be trained as correspondents, reporters and photographers, was for Tretyakov and other productivists the next necessary step in overcoming the division of labour between manual and intellectual activities, repetitive and creative work, or, in Buchloh's words, to meet 'the challenge of merging practices of signification with the methods of industry and production.'

Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET mute 2008