Part of this has to do with a thunderous absence in the contemporary period, something that has been present for so long and no longer exists in the context of our time: where is counterculture? It’s entirely possible that I have simply been passed by, that I’m no longer plugged in to the same networks that I was at one time. However, it definitely seems to me that there is a decided and somewhat worrying absence of a unified counterculture at this point in time. It feels like the moment at the top of a roller coaster when you can no longer hear the chain clanking along, but just before the drop happens — the mechanism isn’t involved any more and the mechanics have taken over.

Analysis, Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMarch 24, 2021Counterculture, Subcultures, Cultural Criticism, Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, James Baldwin, The Diggers, Antonio Gramsci, punk, Pat the Bunny, 9/11, social media, Popular Modernism Comments

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