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Sadie Plant
Plant in 2024
Born
Sarah Jane Plant

(1964-03-16) 16 March 1964 (age 60)
Birmingham, England
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Occupation(s)Philosopher, author, scholar
Known for
  • The Most Radical Gesture
  • Zeroes + Ones
  • Writing on Drugs
Websitewww.sadieplant.com
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Sadie Plant (born Sarah Jane Plant;[1] 16 March 1964)[2] is a British philosopher, cultural theorist, and author.[2]

She is best known for her work in feminism, particularly cyberfeminism. Plant's work is primarily concerned with the impacts of technological developments, including the side effects of its progress. [3]

Plant's publications include books, commissioned reports, articles, and translations from German into English.[4]

Education

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She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989 and subsequently taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit with colleague Nick Land at the University of Warwick, where she was a faculty member.[5][6] Her original research was related to the Situationist International before turning to the social and political potential of cyber-technology. Her writing in the 1990s would prove influential in the development of cyberfeminism.[7]

Career

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Sadie Plant left the University of Warwick in 1997 to write full-time. She published a cultural history of drug use and control, and a report on the social effects of mobile phones, as well as articles in publications as varied as the Financial Times, Wired, Blueprint, and Dazed and Confused. She published the book Zeros + Ones in 1997,[8] in which she reveals how women's role in programming has been overlooked. She was interviewed as one of the 'People to Watch' in the Winter 2000–2001 issue of Time.

In 2003 Plant wrote the 29th chapter in The Information Society Reader,[9] titled The Future Looms: Weaving women and cybernetics. Here Plant writes about the entwinned history of women and the field of cybernetics through the figure of Ada Lovelace.

Publications

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  • The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (1992, Routledge) ISBN 0-415-06222-5
  • Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (1997, Doubleday) ISBN 0-385-48260-4
  • Writing on Drugs (1999, Faber and Faber) ISBN 0-571-19616-0
  • The Future Looms: Weaving women and cybernetics, Chapter in The Information Society Reader (2003, Routledge) ISBN 9780415319287

References

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  1. ^ "Sadie Plant Contact". Sadie Plant. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Sadie Plant". British Council. 2011. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Sadie Plant". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Biography". Sadie Plant. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ^ Mackay, Robin (27 February 2013). "Nick Land: an experiment in inhumanism". Umelec Magazine. Divus. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014.
  6. ^ Reynolds, Simon (1999). ""Renegade Academia" unpublished feature for Lingua Franca". Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  7. ^ Guertin, Carolyn (2003). Quantum feminist mnemotechnics: the archival text, electronic narrative and the limits of memory (PhD thesis). University of Alberta. OCLC 234362574. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
  8. ^ Lê, Vincent (2022). "The most radical philosopher: Putting the cyber back in Sadie Plant's cyberfeminism". Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. 18 (2).
  9. ^ Webster, Frank; Blom, Raimo, eds. (2004). The information society reader. Routledge student readers. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-31927-0. OCLC 52349153.

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