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techno-erotic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der. English techno- Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticuslbor. French érotiqueder. English erotic English techno-erotic From techno- + erotic.

Meanings

1. (informal, not-comparable) Regarding 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 19:
   • I 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:
   • 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 201:

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