technoporn

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.

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".

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.

Buried amongst all the technoporn and science-as-psychedelia were a few shots worth salvaging.

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.

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; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing.