Sentence:  The problem that Benjamin identifies with this impulse, however, is the opportunity to <WSD>overauthor</WSD> the world; in the same essay Benjamin castigates the practice of photography as artistic production, stating that this art form merely 'succeed[s] in transforming even abject poverty—by apprehending it in a fashionably perfected manner—into an object of enjoyment.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.