Why does it freak us out to see simulations of humans that fall just short of the real deal? When it’s stylized, just a collection of parts that attempt no more than to signify personhood, we’re fine. But when its real enough that we’re briefly fooled, that we feel the tug to fawn over or lust after, we’re repulsed.
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Published on March 7, 2009 10:36 pm.
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The KLF were two British chaps who exposed the mass sphexishness of the music world, fired machine gun blanks at award show audiences, made and set alight a million quid, and wrote a wonderful book to help you follow in their footsteps.
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Published on November 20, 2008 4:23 pm.
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