Fardau Visser
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Fardau Visser
“Whether they are gathering information, telecommunicating, running washing machines, doing sums, or making videos, all digital computers translate information into the zeros and ons of machine code. These binary digits are known as bits and strung together in bytes of eight. The zeros and ones of machine code seem to offer themselves as perfect
... See moreexcerpts from ‘Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture’ by Sadie Plant, 1997
Zeros + Ones (Sadie Plant, 1997)
In Search of Digital Feminisms: Digital Gender & Aesthetic Technology (Sol Morén, 2013)
Remediation (Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin, 1999)
IBM PC motherboard (1981)
The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics (Sadie Plant, 1995)
Cyberfeminism—a capacious term the Index seeks to both bring into view and complicate—asks us to consider how the integration of technology into our lives should affect our understanding of the gendered self and how technology itself can serve as a tool of liberation, oppression, and intellectual dissemination.