Sadie Plant
Sadie Plant (1964) is an author and philosopher. She received Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989, and in 1995 went on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University, where she was a faculty member. She left academia in 1997 to pursue writing. She has lectured at symposia and festivals internationally. Lives in Birmingham, England.
Works
Books
- The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, Routledge, 1992, 240 pp. (English)
- El gesto más radical: la Internacional Situacionista en una época posmoderna, trans. Guillermo López Gallego, Madrid: Errata Naturae, 2008, 309 pp. (Spanish)
- Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, London: Fourth Estate, 1997, 305 pp; New York: Doubleday, 1997, 305 pp. (English)
- Nullen und Einsen. Digitale Frauen und die Kultur der neuen Technologien, trans. Gustav Roßler, Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1998, 304 pp. Also published in 1998 as 6-CD audio book read by Elisabeth Sutterlüty. (German)
- Ceros + unos: mujeres digitales + la nueva tecnocultura, Barcelona: Destino, 1998, 309 pp. (Spanish)
- Nullen en enen: de ondergang van het patriarchaat, trans. Harm Damsma and Niek Miedema, Amsterdam: Contact, 1998, 287 pp. (Dutch)
- Mulher digital o feminismo e as novas tecnologias, trans. Ruy Jungmann, Rio de Janeiro: Rosa dos Tempos, 1999, 268 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Rāyat al-tamarrud: al-umamīyah al-mūāqifīyah fī al-ʻaṣr mā baʻd al-ḥadāthī [راية التمرد : الأممية المواقفية في العصر ما بعد الحداثي], Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʻlá lil-Thaqāfah, trans. Ahmad Hassan, 1999, 223 pp. (Arabic)
- Det binære køn: digitale kvinder og den nye technokultur, trans. Jan Teuber, Copenhagen: Samleren, 2001, 268 pp. (Danish)
- Zero, uno : donne digitali e tecnocultura, Rome: Luiss University Press, 2021, 315 pp. With an essay by Simon Reynolds and Hippolyte. Publisher. (Italian)
- Writing on Drugs, London: Faber & Faber, 1999, 276 pp. (English)
- Escrito con drogas, trans. Ferran Meler-Orti, Barcelona: Destino, 2001, 474 pp. (Spanish)
- Narkotika: historien om digtere og stoffer, trans. Ulla Warren, Copenhagen: Samleren, 2003, 283 pp. (Danish)
- Scritti sulla/sotto droga, Rome: NERO, 2024, 284 pp. Publisher. (Italian)
Catalogue
- Sadie Plant: Comment lire a bookshelf in einem Buch, eds. Le lieu secret (Emilie Guenat & Florence Jung), Leipzig: Spector Books, 2023, 96 pp. [1] [2]
Selected articles
- "Beyond the Screens: Film, Cyberpunk and Cyberfeminism", Variant 1:14, Summer 1993, pp 12-17.
- with Nick Land, "Cyberpositive", in Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a Contaminated Culture, ed. Matthew Fuller, London: Underground, 1994, HTML.
- "Kiberpozitivno", trans. Smetnjak, I.d.i.o.t 18, Dec 2016, pp 14-17. (Slovenian)
- "Ciberpositivx", trans. Proyecto Synco, 2019. (Spanish)
- "Babes in the Net", New Statesman & Society, 27 Jan 1995, p 28. [3]
- "The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics", Body & Society 1:3-4, London: Sage, 1995, pp 45-64; repr. in Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk, eds. Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, London: Sage, 1995.
- "On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations", in Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies, ed. Rob Shields, London: Thousand Oaks, and London: Sage, 1996, pp 170-183; repr. in The Cybercultures Reader, eds. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, London: Routledge, 2000, pp 325-336; repr. in The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, ed. Fiona Hovenden et al., London: Routledge, 2000, pp 265-275. Commentary: Bassett (Mute).
- "Na Matriksu: sajberfeminističke simulacije", trans. Vera Vukelić, Kultura 107-108, Zavod za izučavanje kulturnog razvitka, 2003; repr. in Moc / mediji / &, eds. Jovan Čekić and Jelisaveta Blagojević, Belgrade: Univerzitet Singidunum, 2012, pp 293-310. (Serbian)
- "Critical Gestures", Intermedia Art, London: Tate, May 2008.
- "Between Shit and Architecture", keen on 3: "Concrete", Vienna, 2016. (English)
Interviews
- RosieX, "Interview with Sadie Plant", geekgirl 1, 1995.
- "Intervju s dr. Sadie Plant", in Cyberfeminizam, ed. Igor Marković, Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije, 1999, pp 21-24. (Croatian)
- Miss M., "An Interview with Sadie Plant and Linda Dement", [May] 1996.
- Nathalie Muller, "Interview with Sadie Plant", n.d. [4]
- with Chris Land, "Mobile Mutations", ephemera 3:1, 2003, pp 59-67.