Marina Vishmidt (1976–2024) was a philosopher, organiser and art theorist. One of the major critical theorists of her generation, her writing spanned art theory, feminist social reproduction theory, finance, ecology, labour and labour organising, value-form theory, black studies, and film. A lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and Professor of Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, her first book was Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value-Subjectivity in Art and Capital (2018)

Larne Abse Gogarty is a writer and art historian from London who teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her most recent book is What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (Sternberg Press, 2023).

Danny Hayward is a poet and critic whose most recent books are Training Exercises (Both are Worse, 2024) and Loading Terminal (87 Press, 2022).

Kerstin Stakemeier is a writer in Berlin and educator at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. With Marina Vishmidt, she co-authored Reproducing Autonomy (Mute, 2016).