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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Discovery Series Talk: “Placing Virtual Reality: Japan’s Alternative VR History” with Paul Roquet
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SUMMARY:Discovery Series Talk: “Placing Virtual Reality: Japan’s Alternative VR History” with Paul Roquet
DESCRIPTION:<p style="margin:0in">	 </p><p style="margin:0in">	<span><span style="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color:#000000"><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Description</strong></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in">	<span><span style="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color:#000000"><span style="color:#000000"><span><span style="color:#231f20">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?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p><p style="margin:0in">	<span><span style="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color:#000000"><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Bio</strong><span>: </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in">	<span><span style="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color:#000000"><span style="color:#000000"><span>Paul Roquet is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Japan Studies at MIT. He studies the use of media as personal technologies of perceptual and emotional self-regulation. </span><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ambient-media" style="color:#0563c1"><em>Ambient Media: Japanese Atmosphers of Self</em></a><span> (Minnesota, 2016) explores how music, video, art, film, and literature came to be used as tools of individual atmospheric mood control, theorizing what it means to treat media as a sensory resource for self-care. His forthcoming book, </span><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-immersive-enclosure/9780231555968" style="color:#0563c1"><em>The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan</em></a><span> (Columbia, 2022) critically rethinks the cultural politics of consumer VR as a project to perpectually center individuals within a privatized virtual space. All of Roquet’s work engages closely with Japanese materials and social contexts, drawing on the country’s history with media technologies to offer new perspectives for a global media studies.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p><p>	When: Apr 13, 2022 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) </p><p>	 </p><p>	Register in advance for this meeting: </p><p>	<a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdeGprzkoG9F37bE7-_pqmru4XBRGpU1v">https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdeGprzkoG9F37bE7-_pqmru4XBRGpU1v</a> </p><p>	 </p><p>	After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.</p><p>	 </p><p>	 </p><p style="margin:0in">	 </p>
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