![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the twist is that their controlling consciousness is human rather than algorithmic. ![]() It’s an eerie but not unfamiliar premise: You invite a small machine into your home that watches, listens and responds to the way you live. The connection can be broken in a number of ways, but the severance is irreversible. Hopping among more than a dozen countries and characters, “ Little Eyes” tracks the rise of robotic stuffed animals that are bought and cared for by “keepers” and controlled remotely by “dwellers.” When the animals - or “kentukis” - are turned on, each is connected to a single person somewhere in the world who has purchased a serial code in exchange for receiving a literal lens into its keeper’s life. Samanta Schweblin’s latest novel enacts both those meanings. The etymology of the word “dwell” can be traced to the Old English dwellan, meaning “to go astray.” But somewhere along the way, dwell came to mean “to remain for a time,” trading in one kind of entropy for another. ![]()
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