Cyberspatialities of Russia and the United-States: The Challenging Governance of a "Consensual Hallucination"

Abstract

Cyberspatialities of Russia and the United-States : The challenging governance of a "consensual hallucination" This research proposes to appreciate the U.S. and Russia's current cyberspatialities as a the consequence of Cold War inherited and rivalling cybercultures and as the cause of Moscow's "pyromaniac fire-fighter" cyberstrategy. Indeed, the cybercultural analysis reveals that each of the two former superpowers engaged at the end of the second World War in a cybernetic race that fuelled their rivalry well beyond the collapse of Soviet Union. Despite the particularly passionate adoption of the new field by the Soviets, their formal techno-socialist utopia, incarnated by the OGAS system, failed to come into being. However, the largely underestimated formal cyberculture developed throughout this kiber adventure by the Soviet Union deeply influenced its American rivals. As analysed throughout part 5.1.1, the overbidding rational urged by the realist dogmas of hegemonic Cold-War geopolitics nurtured a constant and dynamic interplays of cybercultures. As it is often the case in cultural transfers, this merging of cybercultures was initiated underground and occurred within the framework of the popular cyberpunk literature. Exemplified by the international adoption of the cyberpunk term cyberspace,...