technoporn

Noun

technoporn (uncountable)

1. A pornographic subgenre of science fiction.
   • Prospero's Books is part of an extensive discursive shift that includes aspects of cyberpunk, "technoporn," extreme versions of artificial intelligence and virtual reality theory, and other attempts to reconfigure desire and sexuality in terms of human/machine interaction.2005, Lynda E. Boose, Richard Burt, Shakespeare, The Movie, page 176
   • In his Author's Introduction to the French edition of his technoporn masterpiece, Crash (1975), he describes what it was like to write fiction in the cultural context of the late 1950s: “a world where the call sign of Sputnik I could be heard on one's radio like the advance beacon of a new...2010, P. Youngquist, Cyberfiction: After the Future, page 45
2. Technology that is presented or viewed with fetishistic fascination.
   • Colin Powell prostituted himself at the UN with technoporn including CIA satellite photos of supposed Iraqi WMD facilities.2005, Jordan Crandall, Under Fire: The Organization and Representation of Violence, page 58
   • Buried amongst all the technoporn and science-as-psychedelia were a few shots worth salvaging.2010, Greg Egan, Distress
3. Erotic materials that rely on technology (e.g. pornography available on the internet, artificially constructed body parts, etc.)
   • Desire and difference are organ-ized and hermetically sealed in a closed circuit of technoporn.1991, Constance Penley, Andrew Ross, Technoculture, page 190
   • This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games...2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84