Notes from the Uncanny Valley
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
15. Uncanny Valley Thanksgiving
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Is the star of The Truman Show suffering from the Truman Show delusion? Have culture and reality finally merged into one, trapping us in a fee...
14. Autumn is Nature’s Striptease
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ve noticed that the last socially acceptable form of discrimination is astrological prejudice. Stereotyping based on gender, race, or sexua...
13. I’m a Stranger Here Myself
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“If an alien force were observing Earth, would it see humans as the invasive species and send some kind of robot scarecrows to protect the habit...
12. The Night Watchman
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Maybe all black holes are intelligent civilizations that got sucked up their own assholes.” 0:00 —People call him Superboy… 01:14...
11. Real Person Blues
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Sometimes you’ve gotta beat the crazy outta them.” 0:00 —Intro 00:30 —Riding the train backwards through downtown… 02:34 ...
10. The Healthy Skeptic
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“This is an irony you couldn’t get away with in fiction—socially impaired programmers creating social media environments for society to soci...
9. My Selfie Hurts
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Having been enlisted to take a picture of the happy pair in front of the city, to serve as social media trophy and prosthetic memory, I suddenl...
8. The Way Home
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“I look up at the hotel and wonder which of the fifteen stories of windows it might’ve originated from… The windows are dark and they al...
7. Interpreting the Interpreters
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Who is this God that keeps sending wounded messengers? Is this God deranged? Or are the codes getting scrambled in some kind of cosmic game of ...
6. Sound Reasoning
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“The real problem is that his problem is real. His screams of pain are real, making the electric ray gun as real as anything else. This is the r...
5. The “Real” Question
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“A machine has yet to officially pass such a test, and though it’s still a talking point in the dialogue about artificial intelligence, many a...
4. The Invisible Script
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“It occurs to me that these poor ghost hunters have been captured on video and in that sense have already been forced into ghostly repetition.&#...
3. TMI
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“A street person on a street corner is screaming street words—words that aren’t words, though they come into sharper focus whenever someone ...
2. Plato’s Cave-In
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“I watch the novice robot mimicking his mentor’s demonstration of this glitchy dance from the near future of our distant past . . .“ 00:...
1. Somewhere in the Distant Present
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“My personal space has been invaded by a man looking for an invasion by an insect that practices an invasive form of procreation…” 0...