Zeros + Ones

Digital Women + the New Technoculture

Author: Sadie Plant
ISBN: 9780385482608

It is widely accepted that our culture is primarily defined as male and that all technological development has been driven by testosterone-induced dreams. Most recently it was Camille Paglia who claimed that we'd still be living in huts if women were in charge. On the contrary, Britain's leading cyberfeminist Sadie Plant argues that man's so-called control of nature is seriously challenged by the new scientific paradigms that have emerged from chaos theory, complexity and connectionism, and no longer require sheer physical strength to dominate. According to Plant, the old distinctions between man, woman, nature and technology need to be radically reassessed. And reassess she does in this provocative and bold manifesto on the relationship between women and machines. "Zeros and Ones" will look at the history of computing, in which women emerge as seminal influences, and concentrates on the new technologies--the Internet, virtual reality and multimedia--all of which arouse the greatest fe

Publisher: Doubleday
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General

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