NewSpeak

• Newspeak in 1984

  • The concept of limiting thought through language
    • I thought this was similar to modern programming languages
    • It becomes a grammar or library (vocabulary) that makes it difficult to write in a messy way
      • To become Good Code

• from From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics

• A language bound by the Ideology of the Soviet Union

• Connecting scientists, politicians, and philosophers

• Words should only have descriptive meanings, and the evaluation of words such as good and bad should change depending on the context and the reader’s values

  • The state of goodness or badness that “internationalism” holds can differ depending on the context and the reader

• However, in Newspeak, words are associated with evaluations of good and bad

  • Internationalism is associated with goodness
    • Even with the same meaning, cosmopolitanism is associated with badness
  • Even with antonyms, patriotism is associated with goodness, while nationalism is associated with badness
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    • This represents antonyms of descriptive meaning on the top and evaluative meaning on the left and right
      • Left represents goodness, right represents badness

• These are called “ideologemes”

• Having two “antonyms” in this situation creates ambiguity in Language

  • By manipulating Newspeak, any claim can be made “ideologically good” p25