Meanings
- neologismuncountableThe application of libertarianism beliefs to the digital world.
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The illustrations gathered above—arbitrarily selected but emblematic of profound tendencies across theories, industries, and places—amount to a touching but maddening mythology: cybertarianism, the belief that new media technologies are obliterating geography, sovereignty, and hierarchy in an alchemy of truth and beauty. Cybertarianism promises libertarian ideals and forms of life made real and whole thanks to the innately individualistic and iconoclastic nature of the newer media.
2016, Toby Miller, “Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air”, in Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson, editors, Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor, Oakland, C.A.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21
Origin
Blend of cyber- + libertarianism. Equivalent to cybertarian + -ism.
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