Comments on: Ac­tu­ally ex­isting cy­ber­netic com­mu­nism http://blog.voyou.org/2008/04/01/cybernetic-communism/ Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Raoul http://blog.voyou.org/2008/04/01/cybernetic-communism/comment-page-1/#comment-22504 Raoul Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=143#comment-22504 There's an interesting historical account of Cybernetics in the USSR in Slava Gerovitch's "From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics" - haven't read through all of it myself yet, but seems to contain quite a bit of good information. http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/newspeak.htm Also interesting in this regard is the work of Stafford Beer, a very interesting and strangely eclectic (possibly eccentric) cyberneticist who worked on the CyberSyn project in Allende's Chile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersyn His books Brain of the Firm and Platform for Change are still in print, if expensive, although not with the colour coded pages (seriously). There’s an interesting historical account of Cybernetics in the USSR in Slava Gerovitch’s “From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics” – haven’t read through all of it myself yet, but seems to contain quite a bit of good information.

http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/newspeak.htm

Also interesting in this regard is the work of Stafford Beer, a very interesting and strangely eclectic (possibly eccentric) cyberneticist who worked on the CyberSyn project in Allende’s Chile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersyn

His books Brain of the Firm and Platform for Change are still in print, if expensive, although not with the colour coded pages (seriously).

]]> By: Naadir Jeewa http://blog.voyou.org/2008/04/01/cybernetic-communism/comment-page-1/#comment-22446 Naadir Jeewa Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:13:48 +0000 http://blog.voyou.org/?p=143#comment-22446 Might be worth checking Richard Barbrook's recent book, "Imaginary Futures" which gives an historical account of the competing visions of cybernetics. At his British Computer Society lecture "Post-industrial Imperialism," the narrative given was that a lot of the cold war cybernetics, which eventually led to the development of ARPAnet/Internet and ideas like the "global village" were created in opposition to the fear that the Soviets really had cyberised society. Might be worth checking Richard Barbrook’s recent book, “Imaginary Futures” which gives an historical account of the competing visions of cybernetics. At his British Computer Society lecture “Post-industrial Imperialism,” the narrative given was that a lot of the cold war cybernetics, which eventually led to the development of ARPAnet/Internet and ideas like the “global village” were created in opposition to the fear that the Soviets really had cyberised society.

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