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An inquiry into the dizzy heights and lonesome depths of the sharing economy and the spaces it invites us to. This book features a historical reference on housing needs by Lucius Burckhardt, a philosophy on contemporary machinic capitalism by Gerald Raunig, an essay on gender questions in the sharing economy by Brigitte Theißl, an analytical text on Airbnb´s photo policy and how it affects our everyday life by †yr. It also brings together a set of polemic theses by its editor Christian Berkes, an agonistic panel talk held at Swiss Institute in NYC, which was organized by the London based art collective †yr, and a hyper positivist pamphlet for sharism by Isaac Mao. The text that lent its main title to this publication rounds up this multi-perspective critique of the sharing economy and leads over into a lavishly illustrated Xerox Collection with hidden jokes, self-dissolving associations, and a beautiful form of early interior photography. Welcome Home.

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The term AirSpace maps out a geography created by technology. Social media is shaping our physical world, behaviors and decisions. It invites us to navigate through life without friction, otherness, uncertainty.
This book features a historical reference on housing needs by Lucius Burckhardt, a philosophy on contemporary machinic capitalism by Gerald Raunig, an essay on gender questions in the sharing economy by Brigitte Theißl, an analytical text on Airbnb´s photo policy and how it affects our everyday life by †yr. It also brings together a set of polemic theses by its editor Christian Berkes, an agonistic panel talk held at Swiss Institute in NYC, which was organized by the London based art collective †yr, and a hyper positivist pamphlet for sharism by Isaac Mao. The text that lent its main title to this publication rounds up this multi-perspective critique of the sharing economy and leads over into a lavishly illustrated Xerox Collection with hidden jokes, self-dissolving associations, and a beautiful form of early interior photography. Welcome Home.

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†yr sind Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela, Octave Perrault), Christian Berkes, Andrea Branzi, Lucius Burckhardt, Kyle Chayka, Isaac Mao, Gerald Raunig, Brigitte Theißl

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Christian Berkes is an urban researcher, lecturer, and publisher. He coordinates projects addressing architectures, cities, technologies and art. He is the founder of the platform project botopress in Berlin.

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