Meanings
alternative technoerotic
- informalnot comparableRegarding the association of computing technology with erotica.
Its raison d’être is the technoerotic celebration of a reality to be found on the far side of a computer screen and in the “neural nets” of a “liberated,” disembodied, computerized yet sensate consciousness.
1994, Mark Dery, Flame Wars: the discourse of cyberculture, page 192 more examples
Similarly, no reader, no matter how literal-minded, could be innocent of the gendered erotic trope that figures the hero’s probing nature’s laminated secrets, glorying simultaneously in the layered complexity and in his own techno-erotic touch that never goes deeper.
1993 July, Linda S. Kauffman, editor, American Feminist Thought: At Century's End, Blackwell Publishing, page 201I argue that the newer electronic technologies have inspired changes in techno-erotic imagery in some popular-culture texts but that other texts recycle techno-erotic conventions derived from Western society’s industrial past
1996, Claudia Springer, Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, University of Texas Press, page 8
Origin
- Ancient Greekτεχνο- (tekhno-)
- Englishtechno-
- Ancient Greekἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)
- Latinerōticu
- Frenchérotique
- Englisherotic
- Englishtechno-erotic
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