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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State August V. Koskimies What a wild-ass and unexpectedThe Artificial State is the factory farming of humans, the sorting and segmenting, the isolation and alienation, as if humans were becoming to machines what animals had become to humans. Jill Lepore Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . . the Artificial State, writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by