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Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, And Philosophy In The German Democratic Republic, Kevin T. Baker
Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, And Philosophy In The German Democratic Republic, Kevin T. Baker
History Theses
Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia.