Technoromanticism is a term that describes how some people believe that modern technology can inspire creativity, bring back the idea of a "genius," and create a sense of unity.
[7] One motivation for describing certain aspects of digital culture as ‘’technoromantic’’ is to signal that what many people claim about advanced networked computing is old fashioned and embedded in traditional ways of thinking, however innovative the technology.
[8] The term also encourages critique of commentators who seem to claim they are adopting postmodern ways of thinking[9] when in fact they are referencing romanticism, or lapsing into what George Lakoff and Mark Johnson describe negatively as “armchair phenomenology.”[10] Contemporary scholar Kat Kitay argues "Today, we exist in a sea of technological complexity in which Romanticism is reborn: individualism in influencers, melancholy in doomscrolling, love in devices, fear in AI.
As such the label may misrepresent the profound aspects of the philosophical movement of Romanticism as advanced by Schlegel and Schelling, and on whom many radical twentieth century thinkers have drawn, particularly Martin Heidegger.
[14] The most potent opposition to technoromanticism is advanced from the positions of embodiment, situated cognition, Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and the strategies of Deconstruction as outlined in the context of digital computing by Winograd and Flores,[15] Clark,[16] Dreyfus[17] and Coyne.