The creator of Small Robots (@smolrobots) joins us for one of our most serious and most silly episodes. With the help of a large cast of Thomas's adorable robot characters, we take a range of approaches from the philosophical to the daft to: robots in culture, AI, transhumanism, immigration, gender reveal parties, memes and memetics, A Cyborg Manifesto, killer robots, F1, alpacas, upturned plugs, and more.  

 

Plus, Cities For Life Day. 

 

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What ICE really does - Sofie Werthan for Slate (2018) 

 

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Managing automation: Employment, inequality and ethics in the digital age - IPPR (2017) 

 

Transhumanism and Marxism: Philosophical Connections - James Steinhoff (2014) 

 

10 Technologies Banned From F1 

 

Dying to be big: a review of anabolic steroid use - H Perry (1992) 

 

The Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway (1985) 

 

Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" (26:59) - Theory & Philosophy podcast 

 

No death and an enhanced life: Is the future transhuman? - Robin McKie in The Guardian (2018) 

 

Memebots 

 

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Resistbot (original) 

 

Stop Killer Robots campaign 

 

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Alpacabot 

 

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The Goon Show: What Time Is It, Eccles? 

 

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Newbot 

 

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Cities For Life Day 

 

World Coalition Against The Death Penalty 

 

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