Artificial Natures Unnatural Desires and the Unconscious Other

What is the artificial in English Renaissance Culture and Literature? On the one hand it is any material object represented in Renaissance narrative; on the other it is metaphorically any artificial/fictitious representation of an objective external reality. In Thomas More''s Utopia and Philip Sidney''s New Arcadia the artificial element assumes the dimension of a new kind of technological nature that transcends the artifice-nature dichotomy. In these two seminal works artificial natures and fake desires become natural and real in a retrospective and unconscious fashion thus problematizing the very nature of Renaissance reality.