technoporn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Erotic materials that rely on technology (e.g. pornography available on the internet, artificially constructed body parts, etc.)
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 universe"."
- "The Toronto-based queer fanzine is devoted to campy, technoporn burlesques of Star Trek: The Next Generation's “Borg” episodes."
- "Colin Powell prostituted himself at the UN with technoporn including CIA satellite photos of supposed Iraqi WMD facilities."
- "Buried amongst all the technoporn and science-as-psychedelia were a few shots worth salvaging."
- "If we are to survive, we mest exorcize the demons of our haunted childhood, and grow out of our fascination with "technoporn" — gleaming weaponry and beautiful explosions ."