Key Operators
Talk: Sadie Plant
Wednesday, October 23
7pm
Sadie Plant will give a lecture on her seminal Zeros + Ones (1997). Plant showed how the “zeros and ones of machine code seem to offer themselves as perfect symbols of the orders of Western reality,” in that they epitomize a binary world where “[e]verything depends on [women’s] complicity,” yet women are reduced to an object of transaction between men, “never tak[ing] part as subjects” in the “reproduction of the social order.” [1]
The lecture will be held in English.
[1] Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), p. 42, 44.
The exhibition project Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
