KENOTAF: GROBNICA ZA REČNIK TEHNOLOGIJE
CENOTAPH: A TOMB FOR DICTIONARY OF TECHNOLOGY

Author(s): Dragan Đorđević
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: conceptual praxes; postmodern romanticism; neorealism; marxism; mysticism
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with a problem of historical positioning of arts with anti-communist aims in Yugoslavian culture during the ’80s. The case of Dictionary of Technology has been seen as paradigmatic for current comprehension of the nature of a Belgrade new wave subculture of that period, particularly understanding of its leading role in the last ten years of Tito’s Yugoslavia: its mystical ideas, affirmation of Early-Christian doctrines mixed with punk attitudes and ideas of Zen Buddhism, awakening of new bourgeois spirit and the like. In a word, Dictionary of Technology represents a very special case of a postmodern turnover – “postmodern romanticism”, as once Sreten Ugričić has named this cultural phenomenon.

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