Sadie Plant (born Sarah Jane Plant; 16 March 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a British philosopher, cultural theorist, and author. Education 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. 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. Career 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, 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 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External links A short biography of Sadie Plant Zero News Datapool: Sadie Plant – outdated site with several article links – essay by Sadie Plant commissioned by Motorola. – 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 1964 births Living people British women writers British writers People educated at Alcester Grammar School People from Birmingham, West Midlands Academics of the University of Warwick Academics of the University of Birmingham Accelerationism