Sadie Plant
Sadie Plant (born Sarah Jane Plant; 16 March 1964) is a British philosopher, cultural theorist, and author. 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.
Sadie Plant
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- Name
- Sadie Plant
- Birth Name
- Sarah Jane Plant
- Born
- 16 March 1964
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, England
- Education
- University of Manchester
- Known for
- * The Most Radical Gesture
- Occupation
- Philosopher, author, scholar
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Movements
- cyberfeminism · accelerationism
- Languages
- English
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Plant's publications include books, commissioned reports, articles, and translations from German into English.
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• Name — Sadie Plant • Birth Name — Sarah Jane Plant • Born — 16 March 1964 • Birthplace — Birmingham, England • Education — University of Manchester • Known for — * The Most Radical Gesture • Zeros + Ones • Writing on Drugs • Occupation — Philosopher, author, scholar • Website — www.sadieplant.com theorists
Education
Education
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. 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.
Career
Career
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, 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 a chapter in The Information Society Reader, titled "The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics." Here Plant writes about the entwined history of women and the field of cybernetics through the figure of Ada Lovelace.
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• The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (1992, Routledge) • Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (1997, Doubleday) • Writing on Drugs (1999, Faber and Faber) • The Future Looms: Weaving women and cybernetics, Chapter in The Information Society Reader (2003, Routledge)
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• The Independent • The Independent • http: www.faber.co.uk/author/sadie-plant/ • http: www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15419.shtm • http: www.v2.nl/archive/people/sadie-plant • https: web.archive.org/web/20120308043525/http: www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001211 • http: future-nonstop.org/c/bb37122bc11c3dd0787d5205d9debc41 • http: www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/3-1plantandland.pdf
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- 1.Sadie Plant Contact. Sadie Plant.
- 2.British Council. Sadie Plant. 2011.
- 3.Sadie Plant. V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media.
- 4.Biography. Sadie Plant.
- 5.Mackay, Robin. Nick Land: an experiment in inhumanism. Umelec Magazine. Divus. 27 February 2013.
- 6.Reynolds, Simon. "Renegade Academia" unpublished feature for Lingua Franca. 1999.
- 7.Guertin, Carolyn. Quantum feminist mnemotechnics: the archival text, electronic narrative and the limits of memory. University of Alberta. 2003. 234362574.
- 8.Lê, Vincent. 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. 2022.
- 9.Routledge. The Information Society Reader. 2004. 978-0-415-31927-0.
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