The Cultural and Political Imaginary of Cybernetic Socialism

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/kri.2023.0018
Clemens Günther
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In recent years, we have seen a surge in research on Soviet cybernetics. Drawing on some earlier studies and Slava Gerovitch’s seminal From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, researchers have substantiated the role of cybernetics as a key element in late Soviet epistemology.1 During the Thaw, cybernetics became an “intellectual, technical, and institutional resource for innovation and change” and one of the cornerstones of socialist governance.2 Through the computerization of economic planning and the production process, the government hoped to enhance the quality of decision making in various fields. In architecture, cybernetic modeling became one means for planning and designing the new Soviet city.3 In the humanities, cybernetics was a vital component for establishing the “Soviet Empire of Signs” and for the introduction of statistical methods in linguistics, art, and historiography.4 In environmental studies, cybernetic methods were
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控制论社会主义的文化和政治想象
近年来,我们看到对苏联控制论的研究激增。根据一些早期的研究和斯拉瓦·格罗维奇(Slava Gerovitch)的开创性著作《从新话到网络话》(From Newspeak to Cyberspeak),研究人员证实了控制论在苏联晚期认识论中的关键作用在解冻时期,控制论成为“创新和变革的智力、技术和制度资源”,是社会主义治理的基石之一通过经济计划和生产过程的计算机化,政府希望提高各个领域的决策质量。在建筑方面,控制论模型成为规划和设计新苏联城市的一种手段在人文学科中,控制论是建立“苏维埃符号帝国”以及在语言学、艺术和史学中引入统计方法的重要组成部分在环境研究中,控制论方法是
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期刊介绍: A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.
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