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cyberpastoral

cyberpastoral noun: an ethos that emphasizes simplicity, individual rights, and the transcendence of nationality as a result of technology.

Noun

cyberpastoral (uncountable)

  1. An ethos that emphasizes simplicity, individual rights, and the transcendence of nationality as a result of technology.
    • The focus here is on those points where cyberpastoral meets pastoral, where transnationalism intersects with a spectral nationalism, and with the paradoxes that are introduced into each system as a consequence of these reversed perspectives.2002, Paul Giles, Virtual Americas, page 254
    • Like the pastoral form in general, Respire offers us virtualized nature as if it were nature itself: in this instance, a version of cyberpastoral.2010, Alf Seegert, “Till We Have [Inter]faces: The Cybercultural Ecologies of Avatar”, in Western Humanities Review, volume 64, page 113

Origin of cyberpastoral

From cyber- + pastoral.

Questions about cyberpastoral

What does cyberpastoral mean?
Cyberpastoral means an ethos that emphasizes simplicity, individual rights, and the transcendence of nationality as a result of technology.
What part of speech is cyberpastoral?
Cyberpastoral is a noun.

Words near cyberpastoral in the dictionary

  1. cyberpals
  2. cyberpark
  3. cyberparks
  4. cyberpartner
  5. cyberpartners
  6. cyberpastoral
  7. cyberpath
  8. cyberpathic
  9. cyberpaths
  10. cyberpatient
  11. cyberpatients

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