# From Newspeak to Cyberspeak **Domain:** History of Science / Soviet Cybernetics **Doc Type:** Book **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Slava Gerovitch]], [[Soviet Cybernetics]], [[Anti-Cybernetics Campaign]], [[Public Mythology]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Definition *From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics* is Slava Gerovitch's study of how Soviet scientists and institutions moved between official ideological language, cybernetic reform language and the hybrid discourse that followed institutional acceptance. ## Kybernetiks Context The book is a principal source for the router's distinction between operating capability and publicly authorized vocabulary. It shows that naming a system is part of governance: concepts open and close institutional jurisdiction and possibilities for critique. ## Backlinks - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] - [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]