25th November 2009
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Stalinism was a ‘specifically socialist civilisation’ with its own language (‘Bolshevik’), which not only gave the speaker access to power but also powerfully shaped the speaker’s identity…[i]t was a set of values, a social identity, a way of life. In this book I examine how newspeak and later cyberspeak became central to the ‘way of life’ of Soviet scientists under Stalin and under Krushchev
— Slava Gerovitch. 2002. Newspeak to Cyberspeak. MIT Press: p6
Tagged: languagecybernetics
