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Although virtual reality promises to immerse a person in another
world, its true power lies in its ability to sever a person's
spatial situatedness in this one. This is especially clear in
Japan, where the VR headset has been embraced as a way to block off
existing social environments and reroute perception into more
malleable virtual platforms. Is immersion just another name for
enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality, Paul
Roquet uncovers how the technology is reshaping the politics of
labor, gender, home, and nation. He examines how VR in Japan
diverged from American militarism and techno-utopian visions and
became a tool for renegotiating personal space. Individuals turned
to the VR headset to immerse themselves in three-dimensional worlds
drawn from manga, video games, and genre literature. The Japanese
government promised VR-operated robots would enable a new era of
remote work, targeting those who could not otherwise leave home.
Middle-aged men and corporate brands used VR to reimagine
themselves through the virtual bodies of anime-styled teenage
girls. At a time when digital platforms continue to encroach on
everyday life, The Immersive Enclosure takes a critical look at
these attempts to jettison existing social realities and offers a
bold new approach for understanding the media environments to come.
Although virtual reality promises to immerse a person in another
world, its true power lies in its ability to sever a person's
spatial situatedness in this one. This is especially clear in
Japan, where the VR headset has been embraced as a way to block off
existing social environments and reroute perception into more
malleable virtual platforms. Is immersion just another name for
enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality, Paul
Roquet uncovers how the technology is reshaping the politics of
labor, gender, home, and nation. He examines how VR in Japan
diverged from American militarism and techno-utopian visions and
became a tool for renegotiating personal space. Individuals turned
to the VR headset to immerse themselves in three-dimensional worlds
drawn from manga, video games, and genre literature. The Japanese
government promised VR-operated robots would enable a new era of
remote work, targeting those who could not otherwise leave home.
Middle-aged men and corporate brands used VR to reimagine
themselves through the virtual bodies of anime-styled teenage
girls. At a time when digital platforms continue to encroach on
everyday life, The Immersive Enclosure takes a critical look at
these attempts to jettison existing social realities and offers a
bold new approach for understanding the media environments to come.
Marriage a la Mode is the most famous of William Hogarth's
'progresses' or series paintings, the story of a marriage de
convenance and its unhappy consequences in fashionable 18th-century
London. Contemporaries relished teasing out the meaning of all its
rich detail, and the most extensive and popular of all the
commentaries on the artist's accomplishment: was that of the witty,
many-sided German, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Brilliantly
translated, thoroughly annotated, this text is accompanied by the
earlier and less-known commentary by Hogarth's friend, the
French-Swiss enameller Jean-Andre Rouquet, and by a selection of
Lichtenberg's remarks (in letters to friends) on his purposes and
problems in interpreting Hogarth's work. Included also is another
and very rare 'explanation' of the plates, an anonymous 1746
pamphlet titled Marriage A-la-Mode-An Humorous Tale, in Six Cantos.
A foreword on Lichtenberg, and an historical essay on Hogarth's
work by Mr. Coley, supply necessary background on artist and
commentary. Of Hogarth's greatness there is little that need be
said. But it is worth noting that, of his several 'progresses' or
'modern moral subjects', only Marriage a la Mode centres on the
upper levels of British society - the aristocracy and the
mercantile class.
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Blood Vice (Paperback)
Angela Roquet
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R398
R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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Psychopomp (Paperback)
Angela Roquet
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R393
R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
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Death Wish (Paperback)
Angela Roquet
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R389
R331
Discovery Miles 3 310
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Budding Bards (Paperback)
Natalie Wombles, Alaina Spencer; Edited by Angela Roquet
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R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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With rapid urbanization and an increasing number of publicly funded
urban projects, there is a growing demand to address complex land
acquisition and involuntary resettlement issues in urban settings.
Major urban projects in such areas as urban development, renewal or
upgrading, urban transport, urban watershed management, water
supply and sanitation, and urban solid waste management require
substantial land acquisition and resettlement efforts that raise
significantrisks to people and investments. Governments and
international financing institutions must identify these risks
early and manage them adequately. These issues are amplified by
global trends, such as the degradation of the natural resource base
and climate change. The selection of case studies in this report
came about as a result of discussions within the community of World
Bank involuntary resettlement practitioners, who agreed that urban
resettlement issues remain relatively unexplored and that the
greatest need for examples of innovative practices in resettlement
was in urban settings.
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