about the quoted person:plant read Philosophy at Manchester University, lectured at the University of Birmingham and was Research Fellow and Director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, England. Her most recent book, Writing on Drugs, was published in 1999.she is well-known for her research on digital culture, 'cyberfeminism' and 'ars digitalia'. she is also a critic of contemporary western society and has written a book about the situationists (see "Modern capitalism, organising the reduction...", "twentieth century architects..." and "Young Guys, Young Girls...").