Allen, Jamie2023-02-222023-02-2220152159-9920https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/34648https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4660What is a metaphor for? We might first assume that these unassuming little devices are fixers against incomprehension. They are often translative, mnemonics tricks, linguistically metamorphosing the unknown of a murky, muddy idea into to the crystalline clarity of the familiar. Language itself functions analogously — ”that is a chair” solidifies reference, subtended by tradition, culture and practice, from a concrete object to a gaseous concept, and sublimating back again. “No ideas but in things,” wrote W.C. Williams. (Duffey, Litz, & MacGowan, 1987) Karan Barad inverts this relation with her own rejoinder: “Language matters. Discourse matters. Culture matters. There is an important sense in which the only thing that does not seem to matter anymore is matter.” (Micciche, 2014)enmetaphorsmediageology700 - Künste und Unterhaltung01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift4