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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 man
and his world, it suggests that the telecoms revolution is also a
sexual revolution which undermines the fundamental assumptions
crucial to patriarchal culture. Historical, contemporary and future
developments in telecommunications and in IT are interwoven with
the past, present and future of feminism, women and sexual
difference, and a wealth of connections, parallels and affinities
between machines and women are uncovered as a result. Challenging
the belief that man was ever in control of either his own agency,
the planet, or his machines, this book argues it is seriously
undermined by the new scientific paradigms emergent from theories
of chaos, complexity and connectionism, all of which suggest that
the old distinctions between man, woman, nature and technology need
to be radically reassessed.
"The Most Radical Gesture" is the first major study of the
Situationist International, a revolutionary movement with great
ambition and influence whose reflections on art, everyday life,
pleasure, spontaneity, the city, and the spectacle have ensured it
a vital, but largely hidden, role in the development of
20th-century culture and politics. Revealing the extent to which
situationist ideas and tactics have influenced subsequent political
theory and cultural agitation, this book discusses a variety of
specific movements and moments of contestation, including Dada,
surrealism, the events of May 1968, the Italian Autonomists, the
Angry Brigade, and punk. It places the situationists in a line of
impassioned anti-authoritarian dissent which also informs the work
of writers like Lyotard and Deleuze and underwrites contemporary
debates on postmodernism. It suggests that Baudrillard's
reflections on hyperreality are impoverished reworkings of the
situationists' critical analysis of capitalist society as a
spectacle, and challenges postmodern denials of meaning, reality,
and history by showing that postmodernism itself depends on a
tradition which completely undermines the purpos;This book
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of the most urgent poltical events, cultural movements, and theoretical debates of our times.
Narcotics, stimulants and hallucinogens . . . these drugs have
always affected far more than the perceptions, minds and moods of
their users. Writing on Drugs explores the profound and pervasive
nature of their influence on contemporary culture. It reads
Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline and
Burroughs on them all, and with such writers it begins to
understand the many ways in which the modern world has found itself
on drugs. Psychoactive substances have been integral to its
economic history, its politics, media and technologies. They have
influenced its poetry and stories, and shaped some of its most
fundamental philosophies. They have even exposed the neurochemistry
of a human brain which, like its cultures, has never been
drug-free.
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