From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
A History of Soviet Cybernetics
$105.89
- Paperback
378 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2004
Summary
In this book Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and in society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With the new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science. Soviet cybernetics followed a curious …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262572255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262572257 |
| Author: | Slava Gerovitch |
| Publisher: | MIT Press (MA) |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 378 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 144mm x 219mm |
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“An exceptionally lively and interesting book. This is by far the best-informed and most insightful account of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.” - David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University
About The Author
Slava Gerovitch
Slava Gerovitch is a Dibner/Sloan Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and a Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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