From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics

by Slava Gerovitch

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 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 this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262572257
• ISBN13: 9780262572255
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher