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Bong and his team designed the spaceship, the Drakkar, to feel both futuristic and oppressively bureaucratic, like a deep-space factory where human life is mechanized and survival is optimized at the cost of individuality.

Lumber production and employment had already been declining, in part because most old-growth trees had been cut and because newly mechanized mills required fewer workers.

The car’s tire left a black tread-mark line recording mechanized urban movement, while Aguiñiga’s linear, ladder-like print charts a continuous, age-old human passage that cannot be stopped by artificially drawn political boundaries.

Residents have struggled with high inflation, job losses as agricultural work becomes more mechanized, and a lack of child care and affordable housing.

Both the parents and children who were interviewed believed the smaller size and less mechanized nature of their farms made them safer.