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- ISBN 9780367675639
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As the last Holocaust survivors bear witness in an age of deepfakes, avatars, and AI, the authenticity of witness is at stake as never before. Holocaust XR examines immersive and extended reality technologies through the lens of testimonial methodology, ethics, representation, and authenticity.
Written by a principal architect of the field of immersive testimony—Dimensions in Testimony, The Last Goodbye, IWalk—this volume moves from the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber to the technologies of virtual reality and conversational AI, asking a single urgent question: what methods do we use to preserve the agency of the eyewitness in an agentic world? At the book's ethical center is the “first person first” principle: the conviction that survivors must remain co-creators in the final act of witness.
Scholars and students in Holocaust studies, memory studies, digital humanities, and immersive media will find here both a theoretical framework and a practitioner's guide — one that equips readers to navigate the ethical, representational, and technological choices that will define Holocaust memory for generations to come.
Stephen D. Smith is Visiting Professor of Religion at USC and Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation. His research spans oral history, Holocaust memory, and immersive testimony technologies. Co-founder of the UK National Holocaust Museum, his publications include The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory (2023).
