Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture

by Sadie Plant

Book Overview

A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution.

Zeros and Ones is an intelligent, provocative and accessible investigation of the intersection between women, feminism, machines and in particular, information technology. Arguing that the computer is rewriting the old conceptions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857026985
• ISBN13: 9781857026986
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Plant does not motivate social changes.

The label of "cyber-feminist" should not give readers the illusion of Plant's ability to mobilize women readers. She affirms the role of women as the pursuers of technology, as being part of the machine. Her words become as mysterious as the ghost in the machine because they are only a description of where we are in these times, and I was left without a sense of direction. Her throws to Ada Lovelace were numbing at some point, and I wondered if there were other women we could also look at. Possibly specific Asian women would have been a relief to hear about instead of her tendency to speak generally about women in Japanese and Taiwanese business slowly taking control. Her saving grace was her beautiful analogies of technology with textiles and of binary language with the roles of women and men.