PAUL VAN HERK

Sharing Is Pairing is a long-form written work exploring the unspoken desirous drivers of consumerist urbanism. It begins as a takedown of the so-called ‘sharing economy’, drawing links between economic structures of monogamy, myths of statistical efficiency, the value of communitarian wastefulness, and testing the idea of the city as an ’emotional interface’.

 

Sharing Is Pairing was both a structural and conceptual experiment, written in four voices linked together by a saturated field of footnotes, footnotes in footnotes and footnotes in footnotes in footnotes. The voices are:

 

1. The Populist Assertion

2. The Enabler’s Explanation

3. The Architectural Reference

4. The Academic Disclaimer