Sadie Plant is from Birmingham, UK
She studied philosophy at the University of Manchester and published three books in the 1990s: The Most Radical Gesture, which grew out of her doctoral research about the situationists; Zeros and Ones, which offers an alternative, feminist account of the history and nature of digital technology; and Writing on Drugs, which argues that the enormous influence of psychoactive substances on mainstream Western culture makes a nonsense of the so-called 'war on drugs'
Sadie also translates from German into English and teaches on the Contemporary Arts Practice MA at the Hochschule der Künste Bern
Books
Writing on Drugs, Faber and Faber, London; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Picador, New York 1999
The Most Radical Gesture, the Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, Routledge, London and New York 1992
Zeros and Ones, Digital Women and the New Technoculture, Fourth Estate, London; Doubleday, New York 1995
latest publications!
Comment lire a bookshelf in einem Buch, Spector Books 2025
www.spectorbooks.com/book/sadie-plant-comment-lire-a-bookshelf-in-einem-buch
Spring 2025: Italian translation of Writing on Drugs, Nero Editions
Parution le 20 février 2026: French translation of Zeros and Ones, éditions Sans Soleil
Some shorter works
On the Mobile, the effects of mobile technologies on social and individual life, Motorola, Chicago 2001
‘Learning and Building in the Feminine’, Altering Practices, ed. Doina Petrescu, Routledge 2007
'A Situated Report', Jonctions 10: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields, Brussels 2009
'Eleven Thoughts on Nothing', Vides, Un rétrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2009
Creative Childhoods: A Celebration, Lillian de Lissa Nursery School, Birmingham 2010
'Collisions', essay for Toby Zeigler's exhibition catalogue, Simon Lee Gallery, London 2012
'Brum Beat', essay for Beat Streuli exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2012
'Beating Time', essay for catalogue accompanying Megarave, Kunsthaus Langenthal 2014
'Not yet titled, never will be', in Christoph Weber, Uncast, Spector Books, Leipzig 2015
'Something in the air', essay for Helmut Völter, The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji, Spector Books, 2016
‘Compelled to Count’, catalogue essay for Susan Morris, 2016 https://www.susanmorris.com/publications/self-moderation
'Nursery stories', in Eamon O'Kane, And Time Begins Again, 2019 https://eamonokane.com/publications/5-and-time-begins-again/
essay ¤ for Judith Kakon, 2020 https://kunsthallebasel.ch/de/exhibitions/judith-kakon
Translations
Olaf Nicolai & Jan Wenzel, Labyrinth, ein Buch in Vier Vorträgen, translated from the German by Sadie Plant as 4x through the Labyrinth, Spector Books, Leipzig, and Rollo Press, Zürich 2013
Proud member of the translation team!
Terrain Gurzelen vol. 1
Hrsg. Roman Luterbacher, Marc Tadorian, Emmanuel Crivelli
Haus am Gern, 2025
other writers translated include