The Capital Dialogues: terra0 in Conversation with Paul North and Paul Reitter
<h2><em>The Capital Dialogues</em> puts artists and thinkers into conversation with Paul North and Paul Reitter, who recently published their translation of Karl Marx’s <em>Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1</em> (Princeton Press, 2024). These wide-ranging discussions trace the resurgent wave of interest in Marx within the visual arts field, mapping how these ideas are concretized across contemporary practices.</h2> <p>This conversation is with Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling, who collaborate as terra0. In 2016, they published a white paper theorizing a self-owning forest that would use smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain to facilitate its own economic transactions. This foundational move began an ongoing collaboration imagining new routes of critique, exchange or contact between natural resources and digital capitalism within an inherited framework of critical sculpture and land art. Seidler and Kolling both also practice as individual artists, working across installation, coding and digital media arts. The four Pauls discuss digital art and the connections between cryptocurrency and ecological collapse, alongside the degrowth movement, the autonomy of nature, and early writings by the Japanese Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito.</p>
Authors: Paul North, Paul Reitter, terra0, Paul Seidler, Paul Kolling
Designer: Chris Lee
Part of: The Capital Dialogues
ISBN: 978-1-7373700-7-9