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Plant - XTRA Interview w (2002)
"Plant - XTRA Interview w (2002)" 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
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Sadie Plant I think that when so many women did start using digital technology, and discovering that it did have a new potential for them, there was a lot of interest, clearly Terre Thaemlitz I think that much of my work does have some sort of association to some of the key thematics in Cyberfeminism um basically around um you know the engendering of technology and um the use of particular um technological processes to to initiate some sort of gender critique.
Definition · paragraph 3
Sadie Plant ärz Interview Real video Terre Thaemlitz März Interview Real video Shu Lea Cheang+ März Interview Real audio Chris Korda + März Interview Live in BCN Real audio Franscesca da Rimini Interview Real video the part that's interesting is the very obvious degradation of people in the hands of their machines.
Definition · paragraph 4
Durée : 49 Minutes avec: Shu Lea Cheang, Electric Indigo, Jenny Holzer, Chris Korda, Netochka Nezvanova, Sadie Plant, Francesca da Rimini, Terre Theamlitz... "Neue Kraft, Neues Werk (Transcodeur Express)"présente des artistes visuels, des musiciennes, des théoriciennes à l'ère des technologies digitales.
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download real player rrr Transcodeur express Le 25.04.02 ˆ 00 h 00 ARTE présente "Neue Kraft, Neues Werk (Transcodeur Express)" : Un documentaire de Ninon Liotet et Olivier Schulbaum. Durée : 49 Minutes avec: Shu Lea Cheang, Electric Indigo, Jenny Holzer, Chris Korda, Netochka Nezvanova, Sadie Plant, Francesca da Rimini, Terre Theamlitz...
Definition · paragraph 4
Durée : 49 Minutes avec: Shu Lea Cheang, Electric Indigo, Jenny Holzer, Chris Korda, Netochka Nezvanova, Sadie Plant, Francesca da Rimini, Terre Theamlitz...
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.