Past Event: Book Launch: Lisa Messeri's "In the Land of the Unreal"

Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:00 a.m.—11:59 p.m.
Book cover, stylized with bold text with pink background, and foregrounding a human head wearing VR goggles in purple-blue tones; details provided in caption

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Please join in celebrating Professor Lisa Messeri’s new book, In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles!

It’s a long-awaited book about the culture of Virtual Reality (VR), drawing upon insights from anthropology and feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies). It addresses questions of people’s motivation and fascination about VR, including “how the recent resurgence of virtual reality hinged on a belief that the technology could repair rifts in reality.”

If you would like to learn more her work, you can check out the below resources as well: