Messeri In the Land of the Unreal

Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5922-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of a contemporary community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality, believing that it could remedy society’s ills.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Messeri, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xiii
Introduction: Fantasy and Technology 1
Part I. Fantasy of Place 27
1. Desert of the Unreal: Histories, Futures, and Industries of Reality Repair 31
2. Realities Otherwise: Understanding VR by Experiencing LA 51
3. Tinseltown and Technology: Producing Virtual Reality in the Dream Factory 75
Part II. Fantasy of Being 101
4. Being and the Other: Dismantling the Façade of the Empathy Machine 105
5. Special Affect: An Empathy Machine Otherwise 133
Part III. Fantasy of Representation 155
6. VR's Feminine Mystique: A Technology of the #MeToo Moment 159
7. Making Innovation Women’s Work: Storytelling and Worldbuilding for “Tech” Otherwise 181
Epilogue 201
Notes 209
Bibliography 249
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Messeri is faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University and author of Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, also published by Duke University Press.