A clever or cunning trick, devices or expedients (especially intended to deceive)*
Popcornbender Spatch
@spatch.bsky.social
We watched the first half of the 1944 Henry V again last night for St Crispin's and it is an incredible achievement
The production starts in the Globe and Larry's camera wanders on and offstage as the prologue commences and the groundlings clamor for Falstaff and then one by one the artifice falls
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ZINNIA
@zinniathemaid.bsky.social
I been a big fan of cyberpunk (the genre) because it accurately describes and capture a feeling of surreal alienation you can only get from a complete artifice world that dissociates you from your body and isolates you from others.
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the beggars out of here getter
@milesklee.bsky.social
I talked to academics who study humor and media ethics about Nathan Fielder's ongoing (and purposefully self-sabotaging) quest to capture "reality" through heightened artifice:
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