Citations:technopower

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English citations of technopower

Noun: "skill or capability with technology"[edit]

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  • 2000, Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred, Zed Books (2000), →ISBN, page 15:
    Both the USA and Russia like to demonstrate their technopower and indulge in narratives of technological infallibility and the highest potency of human power, control, cool detachment and rationality.
  • 2005, Lee Worth Bailey, The Enchantments of Technology, University of Illinois Press (2005), →ISBN, page 139:
    Like an old cowboy myth, human space travel is a ritualistic display of basic technopower.
  • 2009, John Tierney, "Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening", The New York Times, 18 May 2009:
    “Those features can be talked about in ways that will display my general intelligence to potential mates and friends, who will bow down before my godlike technopowers, which rival those of Iron Man himself.”
  • 2014, Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel, Harvard University Press (2014), →ISBN, pages 458-459:
    Most worth stressing, however, is the mordant teleology of the triumph of "civilization" by degrees when Native culture and the magical order of shamanism increasingly crumble before technopower as the colonizers' tools become more potent and coveted.

Noun: "a technologically-advanced or technologically-dependent society or government"[edit]

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  • 2002, Michael Longan & Tim Oakes, "Geography's Conquest of History in The Diamond Age", in Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction (eds. Rob Kitchin & James Kneale), Continuum (2002), →ISBN, page 41:
    But The Diamond Age can be read as a cautionary tale, revealing the excesses of postmodern culturalism, and the dangers of denying history its role in shaping revolutionary and liberating subjectivities in the face of a global technopower that has marshalled geography in its conquest of history.
  • 2013, Stephen Pfohl, "Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh", in Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition (eds. Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroke), University of Toronto Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    In this essay I consider how Left Behind is eventful in yet another realm – the realm of global technopower.