Sadie Plant (born Sarah Jane Plant; 16 March 1964 in

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, England) is a British philosopher, cultural theorist, and author.

Education

She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the

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in 1989 and subsequently taught at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the

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) before going on to found the

Cybernetic Culture Research Unit The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick University, England and gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in 2003. It garnered reputation for its idiosyn ...

with colleague

Nick Land Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, theorist, short story writer and blogger. He has been described as "the father of accelerationism", and his work has been tied to the development of speculative realism. He was a leade ...

at the

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, where she was a faculty member. Her original research was related to the

Situationist International The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

before turning to the social and political potential of cyber-technology. Her writing in the 1990s would prove influential in the development of

cyberfeminism Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, methodology or community. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the w ...

Career

Sadie Plant left the

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 ''

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'', ''

Wired ''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Fra ...

'', ''

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'', and '' Dazed and Confused''. She published the book Z''eros + 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''.

Publications

*''The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age'' (1992, Routledge) *''Zeroes + Ones : Digital Women and the New Technoculture'' (1997, Doubleday) *''Writing on Drugs'' (1999, Faber and Faber)

References

General references

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

External links

A short biography of Sadie Plant
– outdated site with several article links * – essay by Sadie Plant commissioned by

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. * – text-only version of above, formatted for US Letter paper. *Sadie Plant, http://future-nonstop.org/c/cee09dd059c37acc692ef6ba19465afb talking in Vienna on systems, technology and gender], 1996 *Interview with Sadie Plant
Getting With The Program, Chicago Tribune, 3 November 1996
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