The collection "Positions" is dedicated to the publishing of artists' writings. John Miller's essays clearly embody

the aims of this series: to question artistic and curatorial practice and theory from the singular position of an

artist involved in both his own and other artists' work.

For Miller, this production/reception issue is a genuine dialectic. From the outset he has argued that the artist

has no choice but to address sociopolitical questions and the ideological apparatuses linked to the production of

cultural "artefacts". To (re)conceive these dimensions of artmaking Miller also confronts a broad theoretical

corpus (Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, or feminist and poststructuralist criticism).

From "polemical" pieces to extensive theoretical essays, through studies on Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and

John Baldessari, the texts collected here respond to the ongoing collision of esthetics and exchange value.