Clarifia for the techno-conspiracy cognitive mindedness of the Dictionary of Technology

Abstract

Conceptual production of the journal Vidici (Horizons), particularly its thematic issue The Dictionary of Technology, represents the cultural content that preserves the sparkle in understanding the technological aspects of social and mental alienation and reification. Even today it has not lost its ideological and theoretical relevance. It allows more accurate interpretation and a better understanding of the ideological trends as well as political and cultural events at the University of Belgrade in the first years after the death of Josip Broz Tito. Time period which is marked as an early post-Titoism (1980-1983) has been explored poorly, and many interesting and significant events from the past were suppressed by the subsequent dramatic historical events. Special actuality of the Dictionary has been given by the harsh ideological criticism exposed in the form of the Analysis of the Dictionary of Technology that appeared as anonym material used by political forums and mainstream media to controvert and ban the Dictionary. While the authors of the Dictionary, based on metaphorical and allegorical insights, tried to get insight into the forthcoming crisis of the Yugoslav society, composers of Analysis wanted to defend blindly ideologically outlined stripe. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179009]

Keywords

• journal Vidici
• dictionary of technology
• analysis of the Dictionary of Technology
• University of Belgrade
• students’ counterculture
• cultural policy
• conflicts in culture
• cultural history