Sadie Plant

Sadie Plant

Sadie Plant (born 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a British author and philosopher.

She gained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989, then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, where she was a faculty member. Her original research was on the Situationist International and contributed to the Situationist-inspired magazine "Here and Now" (published between 1985 and 1994), before turning her attention to the social potential of cyber-technology.

Sadie Plant left academia in the early 1990s to pursue a writing career.

Publications

*"" (1992, Routledge) ISBN 0-415-06222-5
*"" (1997, Doubleday) ISBN 0-385-48260-4
*"Writing on Drugs" (2001, Picado) ISBN 0-312-27874-8
*"on the mobile - the effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life" (2001, Motorola)

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth107 A short biography.]
* [http://fusionanomaly.net/sadieplant.html A short introduction to Sadie Plant.]


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