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Virtual Bodies Inc.
Framing Corporate Mediations of Bodies in VR
- Source: Public, Volume 30, Issue 60, Mar 2020, p. 250 - 259
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- 01 Mar 2020
Abstract
Abstract
As a response to contemporary discourse that declaims the transformative potential of virtual reality (VR), I examine corporate discourse that literally and figuratively objectifies bodies, framing technological mediations as natural and necessary. I argue that these corporate ambitions for bodies in VR have physical, raced, gendered, and political implications, reproducing unequal relations while normalizing an understanding of bodies and worlds as commodifiable data.
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