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Where Do You Live?

David A. Banks

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Screenshot from the homepage of Zeus Living displaying the cities where it offers its users space to rent.

Software as Infrastructure
August 2020










Notes
1

Judith Donath, “Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone—With a Catch,”The Atlantic, December 22, 2017, .

2

Kyle Chayka, “My Own Private Iceland,” Vox, October 21, 2019, .

3

April Glaser and Will Oremus, “The Spotify Effect,” Slate, September 6, 2018, .

4

I have argued that this is an objectionable path to take because it will leave us less free. See David Banks, “Against We,” Commune, November 29, 2019, .

5

Erin Besler and Ian Besler, “The Whole Architecture Catalog,” e-flux architecture, .

6

Sharon Zukin, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 221.

7

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” trans. Harry Zohn, in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), ; Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations,” from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), 166–184, .

8

Ning Wang, “Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism Experience,” Annals of Tourism Research 26, no. 2 (1999): 352.

9

David Harvey, “The Art of Rent: Globalisation, Monopoly and the Commodification of Culture,” Socialist Register 38 (2002): 94, .

10

Ibid., 94.

11

Ibid., 94.

12

Andy Evans and Roxane Osuna, “The Impact of Short-Term Lets: Analysing the Scale of Great Britain’s Short-Term Lets Sector and the Wider Implications for the Private Rented Sector” (London: Capital Economics, 2020) .

13

David Wachsmuth, et al., “The High Cost of Short-Term Rentals in New York City” (New York: McGill University Urban Politics and Governance Research Group, 2018) .

14

Starcity, .

15

“Tishman Speyer and Common Launch Kin, First-of-Its-Kind Housing for Families,” Kin press release, March 19, 2019, .

16

Ibid.

17

Ahmed Kanna, Dubai, The City as Corporation (Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2011), 85.

18

Ibid., 80.

19

Ibid., 82.