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techno-pagan, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈtɛknə(ʊ)ˌpeɪg(ə)n|, U.S. |ˈtɛknoʊˌpeɪg(ə)n|
Forms: also with capital initials.
[‹ techno- comb. form + pagan n.]
A person who combines an interest in computer or other specialized technologies (esp. in the context of rave culture) with an involvement in a modern religion derived from or modelled on pre-Christian nature worship. Cf. techno-shaman n., zippie n.2
1985Tales of Five in net.sf-lovers (Usenet newsgroup) 22 May Us techno-pagans have real problems when we're away from the gods of Print and Film. However, the gods of poetry, Earth, night sky, and dance call us, too. 1989PC-Computing (Nexis) Mar. 42 The allure of the religion for these so-called ‘techno-pagans’ may be what she sees as neo-paganism's futuristic aspects... ‘People tend to be more future directed and are looking for a form of spirituality that can take them into the 21st century.’ 1993Q Jan. 22/1 San Francisco, 2am, and the last leg of The Shamen's jaunt through such unlikely outposts of ‘techno-pagan’ rave culture as New Jersey, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Salt Lake City is drawing to a close. 1998H. Rietveld in G. McKay DiY Culture 261 Futurist pre-modernism is an important aspect of a tradition of countercultural thought and so it is not surprising that Mark declared, ‘You can call us techno-pagans, whatever.’
Derivatives. techno-paganism n.‹techno- comb. form + paganism n., after a belief or cultural movement which combines an engagement with applied (esp. computer) technologies with spiritual and religious elements, typically derived from pre-Christian nature worship.
1992Washington Post 19 Feb. c2/6 And the Dionysiac revival! *Techno-paganism! 1996New Statesman (Nexis) 12 Apr. 36 Escape Velocity shows the similarity between the technological vision of McLuhan and the theology of Teilhard de Chardin: a fusion of mysticism and machinery that Dery calls ‘techno-paganism’. |