Sadie Plant
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Dr. Sadie Plant (b. 1964) is a British author and philosopher, native of Birmingham, England. She graduated from the University of Manchester with her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1989, then 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 at Warwick University, where she was a faculty member. Her original research was on the Situationist International and contributed to the Situationist-inspired magazine Here and Now, before turning her attention to the social potential of cyber-technology. She left academia in the early 1990s, to pursue writing.
She is the author of three books.
[edit] Publications
- 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 (2001, Picado) ISBN 0-312-27874-8