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Henrik Olesen’s "Projects 94" installation (detail) at the Museum of Modern Art
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ME ROBOT
by Walter Robinson



"Man is an automaton," said my roommate during my sophomore year in college. He listened to Coltrane, read Joyce and claimed to write the same paper -- titled "Man Is an Automaton" -- for every assignment. His attitude was nihilistic, if in a harmless undergraduate way.

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