SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN — LITTLE EYES

Hacked Furby

It’s about robotic dolls inhabited by strangers. Don’t care how great Black Mirror is, it ain’t got shit on this. Yeah, Schweblin’s mining the same vein: tech, people trying to connect. She gets at the weirdness and discomfort of social networks and strangers in a way I haven’t seen before — with real wisdom. It’s a people story. People are strange. 

Read June 2022