Re: Literature on Soviet cybernetics
Thank you!
Thank you!
For nonspecialists, Spufford's Red Plenty and Peters's How Not to Network a Nation would be helpful.
Dear colleagues,
Can you please recommend some readings on Soviet cybernetics for a non-specialist audience.
Thank you!
Ronald R. Kline. The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1671-7.
Reviewed by Michael Burnam-Fink (Arizona State University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (November, 2017) Commissioned by Sean Seyer
N. Katherine Hayles. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 350 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-32146-2.
Reviewed by Craig Keating (Department of History, Simon Fraser University ) Published on H-Ideas (September, 2000)
The Condition of Virtuality