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    Presentation: Jonas

    Assigned reading:

    V. V. Ivanov, "The role of semiotics in the cybernetic study of man and collective," in Daniel P. Lucid, ed., Soviet Semiotics: An Anthology (1977 [1965]), 27-38.

    Slava Gerovitch, "The 'cybernetization' of Soviet science," From Newspeak to Cyberspeak (2002), 199–251.

    Ukrainian alternative: V. M. Glushkov, "Кiбернетика в теорiї i на практицi," in Наука i культура (1966), 37-49. [libraria.ua]

    BESM-6 Novosibirsk

    Further resources:

    Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (2011).

    Ronald R. Kline, The Cybernetics Moment: or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (2015).

    Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World (2016).