Technophoria

Near-synonym: technophilia

2011 Philip Doty, "Privacy, Reading, and Trying Out Identity: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Technological Determinism", in Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by William Aspray and Philip Doty, Scarecrow Press, p. 240. As is widely recognized, the technophoria of these and similar authors is all too common, with only Castells of the three offering any serious and specific critique of such enthusiasm.

2017 Joshua Clover, "The Technical Composition of Conceptualism," in Literature and the Global Contemporary, edited by Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 110. Rather than resolve this tension directly, one might suggest that this incoherence signals the possibility of another periodization to be found beneath the technophoria, itself veritably rapturous in its vision of a human race relieved by robots not only from producing but also consuming—a periodization in which neither the anxiety over thwarted innovation nor the hurry of technological progress functions as cause of these poetic and more broadly social developments.

The technophoria of the mid-1990s has, however, left an unfortunate legacy: digital media and print culture studies' avid attention to changing e-book formats and digital rights skirmishes has distracted both fields from considering the surprising resilience of literary discussion.