Dictionary Of Operations: Deep Politics and Cultural Intelligence

by Konrad Becker

Joining his previous titles Strategic Reality Dictionary and Tactical Reality Dictionary, Vienna-based cultural critic Konrad Becker offers another 72-key manifesto of deep politics and cultural intelligence. Through deep-cultural entries like Absolute Mammon, Compulsive Order, Fictional Rationalism, Fundamental Epiphenomena, Irrational Objectivity, Perpetual Emergency, Speculative Finance and Truth Production, Becker unlocks a historical and ideological treasure trove of enslaving memes and pioneer paths to liberation from them.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jeremy Johnston · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reads like an index of all the social and political insights from Bob Dylan songs but more long-winded and opaque. Its format as a “dictionary” is sorta novel, although it really serves to obscure the fact that the whole book is not a coherent thing and each entry would be more meaningfully addressed in a longer and less speculative context.

That said, there’s some zingers like “When people overexposed to confusing and contradictory messages pay attention to narcotizing and dysfunctional media, information is the opposite of action.” This sort of concise sentence is like years of my incoherent, paranoid internal monologue condensed into something really beautiful and useful.