عنوان

From newspeak to cyberspeak : a history of Soviet cybernetics

شابک

0262072327 (hard cover : alk. paper)

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

لاتين

کشور محل نشر

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نام نخستين پديدآور

Slava Gerovitch

عنوان اصلي

From newspeak to cyberspeak : a history of Soviet cybernetics

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

MIT Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2002.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 369 p. :

متن يادداشت

مرجع به حساب نمي آيد

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-359) and index.

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements xi -- Introduction: Soviet Science and Politics through the Prism of Language 1 -- 1 The Cold War in Code Words: The Newspeak of Soviet Science 11 -- Balancing Military and Ideological Priorities for Cold War Science 14 -- Shifting Boundaries between Knowledge and Ideology 18 -- Newspeak: The Fundamentals 21 -- Scientific Newspeak 26 -- "Formalism" as a Floating Signifier 31 -- From Formulas to "Formalism" in Mathematics 33 -- From Literary Form to "Formalism" in Linguistics 37 -- The Specter of "Idealism" in Physiology 42 -- 2 Cyberspeak: A Universal Language for Men and Machines 51 -- Norbert Wiener and Andrei Kolmogorov: Two Mathematicians Tackle Biology 56 -- Control via Feedback: The Body as a Servomechanism 61 -- The Order of Life: The Organism as an Entropy-Reducing Machine 64 -- Human Communication as an Engineering Problem: Man as an "Information Source" 67 -- The Computer and the Mind as Universal Logical Machines 72 -- The Logic of the Brain: The Nervous System as a Turing Machine 75 -- The Computer as a Brain and the Brain as a Computer 79 -- The Making of Cyberspeak and the Emergence of Cybernetics 83 -- Cyberspeak Becomes Universal 89 -- The Cybernetics Bandwagon 96 -- 3 "Normal Pseudo-Science" 103 -- Cybernetic Ideas in a Soviet Context: Pro and Contra 105 -- "Russian Scandal" at the Root of Cybernetics 113 -- Postwar Ideological Campaigns as Rituals 115 -- The Cybernetics "Scandal" 118 -- Serial Rep

تقسیم فرعی موضوعی

yrotsiH.

عنصر شناسه ای

Cybernetics

شماره رده

عنصر شناسه اي

مولف

کد نقش

Gerovitch, Slava.