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Plant - September 11th 2001 (9.11 911 Oil) (Mute 2001)
"Plant - September 11th 2001 (9.11 911 Oil) (Mute 2001)" develops the cyberfeminist line by tying gender, media systems, writing, and synthetic culture into one technical field.
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Core idea
The page matters because cyberfeminism here is not an add-on to the archive's better-known themes. It is one of the places where circuitry, writing, labor, and gender are made to reorganize what counts as a subject or a system.
These texts work by making cultural criticism, theory, and technical description contaminate each other. The result is a model of subjectivity produced through networks, codes, and infrastructural mediation rather than grounded in stable identity.
That matters because the archive's human/machine problem changes once it is read through Plant, Parisi, and later xenofeminist debate. The future stops looking like a neutral technical horizon and becomes a struggle over who or what gets composed by it.
How to read this text
Read for where writing, labor, media, or embodiment are described as technical arrangements rather than background topics. That is where the page usually sharpens.
Keep an eye on how the page positions itself against humanist or moralizing accounts of technology. The section's strongest interventions are usually anti-essentialist and infrastructural at once.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 3
September 11 may have been enough to start this latest war in Afghanistan, but it will take far more than this most potent day to run the risk of another Vietnam. Sadie Plant <sadie AT plants.demon.co.uk> is based in Birmingham. Her most recent book, Writing on Drugs, is published by Faber and is now out in paperback
Definition · paragraph 3
The Afghans have a lot of experience when it comes to fighting, defeating, and even breaking superpowers: the British Raj was stopped here; the Red Army too. September 11 may have been enough to start this latest war in Afghanistan, but it will take far more than this most potent day to run the risk of another Vietnam. Sadie Plant <sadie AT plants.demon.co.uk> is based in Birmingham.
Definition · paragraph 2
People speak in the vaguest terms about the attacks, the atrocities, or simply ‘what happened’ on a day whose only real designation is its date: September 11, 2001. In the absence of a single target, a clear source, a transparent meaning, or an admission of responsibility to give the day identity, the date is perhaps the only certainty to which all the debris of the day can be affixed.
History · paragraph 1
ARTICLES SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001 (9.11 911 OIL) Featured in Mute Vol 1, No. 22 – The Art Issue By Sadie Plant , 10 December 2001 In this issue, Sadie Plant, author of Zeros and Ones – a feminist history of networks and technology – selects the ultimate ‘Pin Code’ of our times.
History · paragraph 1
22 – The Art Issue By Sadie Plant , 10 December 2001 In this issue, Sadie Plant, author of Zeros and Ones – a feminist history of networks and technology – selects the ultimate ‘Pin Code’ of our times. For total capitalistdemocratic cooperation, just dial 911
Appears in sections
Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.