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Plant - Bright Young Things (Review) (New Scientist 1996)
"Plant - Bright Young Things (Review) (New Scientist 1996)" uses review form to turn cultural criticism into a compact diagnosis of cyberfeminist modernity, media systems, and gendered abstraction.
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Core idea
The page matters because cyberfeminism here is not an add-on to the archive's better-known themes. It is one of the places where circuitry, writing, labor, and gender are made to reorganize what counts as a subject or a system.
These texts work by making cultural criticism, theory, and technical description contaminate each other. The result is a model of subjectivity produced through networks, codes, and infrastructural mediation rather than grounded in stable identity.
That matters because the archive's human/machine problem changes once it is read through Plant, Parisi, and later xenofeminist debate. The future stops looking like a neutral technical horizon and becomes a struggle over who or what gets composed by it.
How to read this text
Read for where writing, labor, media, or embodiment are described as technical arrangements rather than background topics. That is where the page usually sharpens.
Keep an eye on how the page positions itself against humanist or moralizing accounts of technology. The section's strongest interventions are usually anti-essentialist and infrastructural at once.
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Definition · paragraph 1
While he pays attention to Japanese anime comics and films, Rushkoff tacitly assumes America’s culture is as young and advanced as its own children. But the changes Rushkoff describes are themselves emerging in
Definition · paragraph 3
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Definition · paragraph 1
This book also smacks of white, male American culture so that readers coming from anywhere else may well be unable to decide whether their unfamiliarity with certain elements of screenage culture is a consequence of a gap between generations or continents. While he pays attention to Japanese anime comics and films, Rushkoff tacitly assumes America’s culture is as young and advanced as its own children.
History · paragraph 2
synch with nations and cultures that are still younger. By Sadie Plant Sadie Plant is director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick Magazine issue 2039 published 20 July 1996 0 Review : . . .
History · paragraph 2
synch with nations and cultures that are still younger. By Sadie Plant Sadie Plant is director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick Magazine issue 2039 published 20 July 1996 0 Review : . . . And legacy Review : Locals know how DOWNLOAD BUY IN PRINT SUBSCRIBE Previous article Next article
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Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.