cyberpastoral en · NOUN
Etymology
From cyber- + pastoral.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An ethos that emphasizes simplicity, individual rights, and the transcendence of nationality as a result of technology.
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:Assange and WikiLeaks continued in their tensely quaint, cyberpastoral existence until July 2012, when Assange skipped bail immediately following an unsuccessful appeal against extradition to Sweden at the UK Supreme Court, the country's highest court of appeal
2017, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Michał Murawski, Jesse Weaver Shipley, “The Art of Dissident Domesticity: Julian Assange, King Prempeh, and Ethnographic Conceptualism in the Prison House”, in Social Text, volume 35, number 4: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:Pedro leaves Chinganaza to travel north in a desperate bid to incite revolution and reform—along the lines of the “model” of his home—in Cali-Texas, whose constantly expanding (Center-like) shadow has begun to darken even the cyberpastoral of Chinganaza
2020, Micah Donohue, “Apocalyptic Allegories and Post-Apocalyptic Utopias: Saramago's A Caverna and Sánchez and Pita's Lunar Braceros”, in ASAP/Journal, volume 5, number 1: