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Strategies and tactics in Skyrim through virtual reality

the VR–HMD as a model for disciplining in the twenty-first century

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Strategies and tactics in Skyrim through virtual reality

the VR–HMD as a model for disciplining in the twenty-first century

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This article is about the Virtual Reality-Head Mounted Display (VR-HMD) as a model for contemporary ways of disciplining. The VR-HMD makes the observer discipline herself through the triggering of performance. Through specific strategies the VR-HMD addresses the body of the observer to perform in the mixed reality that is constructed in the interaction between the body and the VR-HMD. These strategies consist of approaches by the hardware developers and content creators to manage the subjectivity and visuality of the observer. Today’s body is not disciplined through formatted technics of the VR-HMD, but through self-disciplining of the observer’s active performance. This article will unravel the strategies within the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR on the Playstation VR that are used to control the visuality and subjectivity. Through her interaction in the game the observer also becomes aware of her body and the ways that it is disciplined in. In the end, this article will argue that the VR-HMD should not only be understood as a strategic device that can discipline a neoliberal subject, but that the VR-HMD is a supercomplex intervention that could help us to become more corporeal literate of our bodies in the age of digital media.

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OrganisatieHogeschool Utrecht
AfdelingKenniscentrum Sociale Innovatie
LectoraatToegang tot het Recht
Gepubliceerd inInternational Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media Vol. 16, Uitgave: 1, Pagina's: 18-36
Datum2019-09-30
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1080/14794713.2019.1671695
TaalEngels

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