This kind of artificiality has been addressed in relation to robots and monsters (like zombies). In this post, we trace some examples of this theme in literature and film.

Artificial intelligence can be uncanny and creepy. Familiarity, based on conscious awareness, is relevant for understanding why.

There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality. By Ismail Muhammad Forget April: In middle school, November was ...

ADAPTED FROM A NOVEL Lena Ashwell, Appearing at the Lyric, Exhibits Blend of Rare Naturalness and Extreme Artificiality. Share full article. Oct. 30, 1906.

‘Another Day of Life’ Film Review: Animated True Story Vacillates Between Documentary and Artificiality. An intense and violent look at war in Angola is undone by the slick, “Grand Theft ...

The artificiality of the world Lily inhabits, as well as the teenage romanticism that suffuses it, clash with these vital concerns, so much so that they come off as a melodramatic punchline rather ...

Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan, commenting on the recent developments involving clergy, told reporters that living in hypocrisy ...

Greta Gerwig Says ‘Barbie’ Channels the Surrealism of Classic Technicolor Musicals With ‘Authentic Artificiality’ “You have a painted sky in a soundstage.