“The participants are bureaucrats who live in the machine endlessly dragged along by conveyor belts, chutes, and pneumatic tubes from the time of birth to the time of death.”
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Hito Steyerl,
Department of Decentralization, and
GPT-3, describing La Ville-Machine Habitée, one of “Twenty-One Art Worlds: A Game Map,” a choose your own adventure journey through various corners of the contemporary art world—both vital and obsolete