I normally do not watch or recommend video talks, but this one with Sadie Plant is very much worth watching. It’s from 1994 (so when she mentions “the matrix” she is not talking about the one with Keanu Reeves) and she discusses the cult of the virtual, feminism, immateriality and idealism, the desire for “escape from the meat” and many other topics. Though long, it’s great, and she’s nerdy-charming, so that helps.

I think some of her assertions and associations are wrong or misguided, but I admire someone who is actually thinking rather than parroting what a million other people are saying. She is right about many things that people are almost just now coming around to — 25 years later.