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Plant - Interview with RosieX (Nutek Women)
"Plant - Interview with RosieX (Nutek Women)" makes cyberfeminist and posthuman arguments legible through interview form, where scene position, public voice, and technical theory have to meet.
Archive condition
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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.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
I'm working on cyberfeminism at the moment which suggests that there is a an intimate and possible subversive element between women and machines, especially the new intelligent machines, which are no longer simply working for *man* as are women no longer simply working for man. RosieX Why do you use the term cyberfeminism? Sadie The word cyberfeminism I started using quite independently of any other use I'd come across.
Definition · paragraph 1
She is now looking at Cybernetics and writing a book on drugs, cybernetics, & cyberfeminism & the whole issue of machine intelligence and self organising systems. All of which annotates Sadie are "becoming increasingly important for women today". (most comments in brackets are those of the editor(s) who are in no way responsible for them, or any other comments.) Sadie intros herself...
Definition · paragraph 2
RosieX But at the moment generally speaking only a few women have access to this power or are they capitalising on these shifts. What about the gap between information rich and information poor women? Sadie Its important to realise there is never an instantaneous change but never‐the‐less if you look at the historical situation and women's lib.. so far, you can begin to track future potential.
Definition · paragraph 1
All of which annotates Sadie are "becoming increasingly important for women today". (most comments in brackets are those of the editor(s) who are in no way responsible for them, or any other comments.) Sadie intros herself... I'm working on cyberfeminism at the moment which suggests that there is a an intimate and possible subversive element between women and machines, especially the new intelligent machines, which are no longer simply working for *man* as are women no longer simply working for man.
Definition · paragraph 2
A lot of the new thoughts are being provoked by the whole cyberpunk movement by which I mean not just the literature but the whole chaos/techno culture in which men participate in a feminine way or increasingly feminised way. RosieX But at the moment generally speaking only a few women have access to this power or are they capitalising on these shifts.
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.