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Zeros and Ones
Sadie Plant's 1997 Zeros + Ones reads the history of women and machines as one continuous technical line, running weaving, Ada Lovelace's notes, telephone-exchange work, and binary code together as a single inheritance.
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Plant reads technical history for the labour hidden inside it, recovering the operators, calculators, and weavers whose work the canon recorded as machinery rather than thought, so that the digital descends from textile work done largely by women.
This matters because the book is the fullest single statement of the cyberfeminism that ran alongside Land at Warwick, and it anchors the archive's account of that strand.
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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.