What Is the Uncanny Valley? The uncanny valley hypothesis states that artificial characters and objects that are almost but not fully human-like will trigger a deep sense of unease. To depict this ...

(We like humanoid objects up to a point, but when they cross a threshold of realism without actually being real, we find them repulsive.) But the notion of the uncanny dates back farther than that ...

Historically, male Surrealists have portrayed women in rather uncanny ways, presenting them as fetishised or infantilised objects rather than as fully dimensional humans. The Surrealist pieces in ...

The concept of the "uncanny valley" refers to a phenomenon where humanoid objects that closely resemble humans provoke eerie or unsettling feelings among human observers. This phenomenon becomes ...

No other art term has become such an easy cliché: it has shifted from its original sense of the uncanny and the unheimlich ... Or perhaps they were always there? Objects of Desire: Surrealism ...

Where astronomers thought there was one brown dwarf, there’s actually two. And the object they studied isn’t just any ordinary brown dwarf. Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf ...

“What I argue in my book is that dolls are completely liminal objects.” In “Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture,” Koné offers a new term to sum up his argument: doll thinking. He ...

Marvel's big X-Men relaunch rolls on with the resurrection of the team's classic title Uncanny X-Men, which has been dormant for several years. This time, Uncanny X-Men #1 is launching as the ...