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"(1) WORTH A LOT OF BREAD. Camestros Felapton’s robotic chronicle takes up “RF:Ph04:Ch67: The Brave Little Toaster”."

"… So, a toaster, even an anthropomorphised one, is not a robot. However, the eponymous Brave Little Toaster is a machine that thinks. As I have already mentioned, it’s not even the first such example. The question then is, in what way is the Brave Little Toaster as a being different from, say, Tik-Tok of Oz? Partly, we can avoid the question of intelligence and consider motive force. Tik-Tok moves by clockwork; the Toaster moves just because he can – it’s an inanimate object that has come to life of its own accord. This conceit applies to many objects in folklore but also the toys in Toy Story. With, say, Thomas the Tank Engine, this animating principle does not apply to how the engine moves on the track, but it does apply to his facial expressions and (presumably) his capacity to think. Notably, Tik-Tok (unlike either Thomas or the Toaster) expressly requires clockwork to think."

"In other words, The Brave Little Toaster harks back to antiquity and the concept of a divine spark or fire animating both movement and thought. That concept we’ve discussed in the earliest chapters of this project. With Frankenstein, we have a conceptual shift where the spark of life might be of a natural form. However, by the time Disch writes The Brave Little Toaster, these concepts have evolved into the modern conception of robots where no life-force or soul is necessary to imagine a moving, thinking mechanical being…."

"(2) N. K. JEMISIN EVENT. “What’s happening at New York’s libraries this August” – Gothamist has the answer."

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