Sadie Plant

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.{{cite news | last = Mackay | first = Robin | title = Nick Land: an experiment in inhumanism | url = http://divus.cc/london/en/article/nick-land-ein-experiment-im-inhumanismus | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140118235630/http://divus.cc/london/en/article/nick-land-ein-experiment-im-inhumanismus | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2014-01-18 | work = Umelec Magazine | publisher = Divus | date = 27 February 2013 }}{{cite web | last = Reynolds | first = Simon | title = "Renegade Academia" unpublished feature for Lingua Franca | url = http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/renegade-academia-cybernetic-culture.html | date = 1999 | access-date = 27 December 2014 }} 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.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|last=Guertin|first=Carolyn|date=2003|title=Quantum feminist mnemotechnics: the archival text, electronic narrative and the limits of memory|publisher=University of Alberta| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160324171812/http://elmcip.net/node/4394 | archive-date = 24 March 2016 | url = http://elmcip.net/node/4394 |oclc=234362574}}

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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,{{Cite journal |last=Lê |first=Vincent |date=2022 |title=The most radical philosopher: Putting the cyber back in Sadie Plant’s cyberfeminism |journal=Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy |volume=18 |issue=2}} 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,{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm52349153 |title=The Information Society Reader |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-31927-0 |editor-last=Webster |editor-first=Frank |series=Routledge Student Readers |location=London, New York |oclc=ocm52349153 |editor-last2=Blom |editor-first2=Raimo}} 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.

• 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}}

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• [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-sadie-plant--it-girl-for-the-21st-century-1235380.html The Independent]
• [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/books-different-for-girls-1235126.html The Independent]
• http://www.faber.co.uk/author/sadie-plant/
• {{deadlink|date=March 2025}}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

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051201122559/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth107 A short biography of Sadie Plant]
• [http://www.t0.or.at/sadie/sadie.htm Zero News Datapool: Sadie Plant] – outdated site with several article links
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625013404/http://www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/234_MotDoc.pdf |date=25 June 2008 |title=On the mobile: the effect of mobile telephones on social and individual life }} – essay by Sadie Plant commissioned by Motorola.
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127165250/http://www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/267_MotDoc.pdf |date=27 January 2007 |title=On the mobile: the effect of mobile telephones on social and individual life }} – 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, [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-11-03-9611030134-story.html Getting With The Program, Chicago Tribune, 3 November 1996]

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