In the Land of the Unreal

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In the Land of the Unreal

Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles

Messeri, Lisa

Duke University Press

03/2024

312

Mole

Inglês

9781478030232

15 a 20 dias

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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 FaCade 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
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2025 Ludwik Fleck Prize; Society for Social Studies of Science; 4S Book Awards; honorable mention; ethnography; anthropology; Hollywood; reality crisis; tech; virtual reality; Los Angeles; #MeToo; techlash; tech for good; empathy machine; Trumpism; utopia; world building; façade; hyperreality; Technicolor; Silicon Valley; Technicolor Experience Center; Nonny de la Peña; University of Southern California; Sundance; Facebook; Embodied Labs; startup; caregiving; Carrie Shaw; metaverse; technology otherwise; 2025 Gregory Bateson Prize; Society for Cultural Anthropology; SCA Book Award Winners; Society for Social Studies of Science Book Awards