With a Plumed Helmet and a Broken Sword: Blackbird Raum and Metachrony

I’m going to love “The Helm of Ned Kelly” until the day I die, because I would never have thought to equate the legend of Taliesin with the history of an Australian bushranger, and I’m still not 100% certain on the nature of the correspondence, but I still feel in my bones that the correspondence is there and that it has a value to it.

Written by: Cameron, AnalysisCameron SummersSeptember 25, 2019Blackbird Raum, Metachrony, Folk Punk, False Weavers, Under the Starling Host, Swidden, Destroying, AJJ, Mischief Brew, Pat the Bunny, Ramshackle Glory, Against Me!, The Pogues, Haymarket Squares, Immaculate MisconceptionComment

To Live and Die by Metaphor

Crafting new metaphors is a difficult task: very few of us try to do it regularly, and oftentimes, when we do, it is supposed to apply to a particular situation that will arise once and then never again – and so our metaphors are purpose-made for one thing and one thing only, and it is only an accident when it becomes more generally applied.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersSeptember 23, 2019Metaphors, Rene Descartes, Blade Runner, Karl Marx, AJJ, Neuromancer, William GibsonComment