2023/02/27

The Capitalist Realism of Terra0

“If we could endow nature with the legal power of personhood using emerging blockchain technologies, would it fight back?”
– Artist and curator Simon Wu, on the vexing question at the heart of terra0’s blockchain governance experiments. Granting property rights to trees and forests, makes the artist collective’s method “a sort of capitalist realism,” argues Wu. “Maybe, they seem to say, there are few other ways to produce substantive forms of legal autonomy—and thus protection—for natural environments under capitalism.”
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