The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

How does Lepore use science fiction as historical evidence, and what does this approach allow her to show about the development of the Artificial State?

How does Lepore’s narrative voice as a historian guide the reader’s interpretation of the supposedly objective, data-driven systems she critiques?

How does Lepore relate the Artificial State’s inherent ecological unsustainability to the possibility of its deliberate democratic dismantlement?