Foreword
Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix
Thirty years ago, four Australian artists wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness text with inspirations ranging from French feminist theory and the cyberpunk writings of William Gibson to Donna Hara…Through its history, cyberfeminism has often been defined by what it is expressly not. [^87] Coined in the early 1990s by the British cultural theorist Sadie Plant [^122-p6] and VNS Matrix, the word “cyberfeminism” takes on its prefix “cybe…
Sadie Plant
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Sadie Plant is a British cultural theorist credited with coining the term "cyberfeminism" in the early 1990s, a concept that merges feminist theory with cybernetic systems thinking to interrogate how digital networks and technologies reshape gender, labor, and agency. The course readings position her as foundational to cyberfeminism's vocabulary alongside VNS Matrix, using her work to establish how the movement defines itself in relation to Haraway's cyborg theory and broader critiques of technology's entanglement with feminist politics. Plant's theoretical framework enables the seminar to examine cybernetics not as neutral systems but as sites where feminist intervention and artistic practice become inseparable.
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