Text page
Plant - Interview with Fringecore
"Plant - Interview with Fringecore" makes cyberfeminist and posthuman arguments legible through interview form, where scene position, public voice, and technical theory have to meet.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
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.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
She is the author of Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture (1997), The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (1992), and of numerous articles about technology and gender. Sadie has acquired the name of cyberfeminist par excellence. I met sadie at the Kaai Theater in Brussels, where she gave a talk on art and technology.
Definition · paragraph 4
Sadie: Well, rightly or wrongly (we both would probably like to say wrongly), there are certain ways of doing things or certain attributes, or qualities which have been considered "female" or "feminine" in the past whether we like it or not. It does seem to me that the demands of contemporary culture, such as adaptability, multi-tasking, flexibility and so on, are all qualities that for no good reason _ obviously for the worst of reasons _ women have had to exercise to simply survive.
History · paragraph 1
Fringecore 6: toc · previous article · next article · print Post-Cyberfeminism? Nat Muller meets up with SADIE PLANT by Dee Sadie Plant has taught at Birmingham and Warwick University. She is the author of Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture (1997), The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (1992), and of numerous articles about technology and gender.
History · paragraph 1
Fringecore 6: toc · previous article · next article · print Post-Cyberfeminism? Nat Muller meets up with SADIE PLANT by Dee Sadie Plant has taught at Birmingham and Warwick University.
History · paragraph 1
Nat Muller meets up with SADIE PLANT by Dee Sadie Plant has taught at Birmingham and Warwick University.
Appears in sections
Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.