“Slums: The Global Urban Future?” Asks Replicant Roy

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Introducing: Replicant Roy — a genetically engineered android. She is the slave labor of the #GlobalPOV machine, meant to toil in off-world script writing sessions and banned from all storyboard undertakings. She is essential yet disposable, once narration is complete. Her very existence calls into question human-ness itself.

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