This issue is mainly conceived as a series of conversations, accompanied by corresponding essays – researching the shifting relation between art, culture and society, suggesting a tendency towards the total incorporation of art into the cultural system, also figuring out some forms of creativity this new socialism might involve. Bernhard Martin (artist), Daniel Kurjakovic (curator) and Axel Haubrok (collector) contributed to this kind of round table; additional authors are Georg Simmel, Daniel Buren and Wyndham Lewis. Images by Barbara Kruger, Jeff Koons, Michael Asher, Sarah Morris, Richard Avedon, Karin Sander …