- Hardcover: 305 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (1 Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385482604
- ISBN-13: 978-0385482608
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,554,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Not since The Female Eunuch has there been a book so radical in its scope, so persuasive in its detail, so exhilarating in its polemical energy. Beginning with Ada Lovelace and her unheralded contributions to Charles Babbage and his development of the Difference Engine, Sadie Plant traces the critical contributions women have made to the progress of computing. Shattering the myth that women are victims of technological change, Zeros + Ones shows how women and women's work in particular--weaving and typing, computing and telecommunicating--have been tending the machinery of the digital age for generations, the very technologies that are now revolutionizing the Western world.
In this bold manifesto on the relationship between women and machines, Sadie Plant explores the networks and connections implicit in nonlinear systems and digital machines. Steering a course beyond the old feminist dichotomies, Zeros + Ones is populated by a diverse chorus of voices--Anna Freud, Mary Shelley, Alan Turing--conceived as exploratory bundles of intelligent matter, emergent entities hacking through the constraints of their old programming and envisioning a postpatriarchal future.
Astonishing, inspiring, witty, and perverse, Zeros + Ones is a love song to Ada, a soundtrack for the next millennium, a radical revision of our technoculture that will forever change the way we perceive our digital world.
In this bold manifesto on the relationship between women and machines, Sadie Plant explores the networks and connections implicit in nonlinear systems and digital machines. Steering a course beyond the old feminist dichotomies, Zeros + Ones is populated by a diverse chorus of voices--Anna Freud, Mary Shelley, Alan Turing--conceived as exploratory bundles of intelligent matter, emergent entities hacking through the constraints of their old programming and envisioning a postpatriarchal future.
Astonishing, inspiring, witty, and perverse, Zeros + Ones is a love song to Ada, a soundtrack for the next millennium, a radical revision of our technoculture that will forever change the way we perceive our digital world.
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Format:Hardcover
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.
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.
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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Plant does not motivate social changes.
22 Mar 1998
Format:Hardcover
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.
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.
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