2003, ISBN: 9780262072328

Honorable Mention for the 2003 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), in conjunction with the Stanford Universit… Mehr…

Honorable Mention for the 2003 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), in conjunction with the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies 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. The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a reactionary pseudoscience and a weapon of imperialist ideology. With the arrival of Khrushchev's political "thaw," however, it was seen as an innocent victim of political oppression, and it evolved into a movement for radical reform of the Stalinist system of science. In the early 1960s it was hailed as "science in the service of communism," but by the end of the decade it had turned into a shallow fashionable trend. Using extensive new archival materials, Gerovitch argues that these fluctuating attitudes reflected profound changes in scientific language and research methodology across disciplines, in power relations within the scientific community, and in the political role of scientists and engineers in Soviet society. His detailed analysis of scientific discourse shows how the Newspeak of the late Stalinist period and the Cyberspeak that challenged it eventually blended into "CyberNewspeak." From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics Gerovitch, Slava, MIT Press (MA)<

ISBN: 0262072327

In this text 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 cyb… Mehr…

In this text 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. artificial intelligence,business and management,computer science,computers and technology,culture,cybernetics,education and reference,history,history and philosophy,human vision and language systems Computer Science, MIT Press<

2002, ISBN: 9780262072328

Cambridge: MIT, 2002. 369 pp., hardcover, LIKE NEW in a very good dust jacket, Cambridge: MIT, 2002

2002, ISBN: 9780262072328

The MIT Press. Hardcover. 0262072327 wraps 369 pp. . Very Good. 2002., The MIT Press, 2002