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From newspeak to cyberspeak : a history of Soviet cybernetics /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Soviet Science and Politics through the Prism of Language
- 1. Cold War in Code Words: The Newspeak of Soviet Science. Balancing Military and Ideological Priorities for Cold War Science. Shifting Boundaries between Knowledge and Ideology. Newspeak: The Fundamentals. Scientific Newspeak. "Formalism" as a Floating Signifier. From Formulas to "Formalism" in Mathematics. From Literary Form to "Formalism" in Linguistics. Specter of "Idealism" in Physiology
- 2. Cyberspeak: A Universal Language for Men and Machines. Norbert Wiener and Andrei Kolmogorov: Two Mathematicians Tackle Biology. Control via Feedback: The Body as a Servomechanism. Order of Life: The Organism as an Entropy-Reducing Machine.