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] and VNS Matrix, the word “cyberfeminism” takes on its prefix “cyber”—…
Sadie Plant
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Sadie Plant is a British theorist who, along with VNS Matrix, was instrumental in coining "cyberfeminism" in the early 1990s as a framework connecting feminist theory with cybernetics and digital culture. The course readings position her as foundational to understanding how cyberfeminism emerged from and reshaped conversations about technology, gender, and agency that trace back through Haraway's cyborg politics and cybernetic theory. Her theoretical intervention enables the seminar's central investigation into how feminist critique intersects with computational systems and AI development.
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