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Glitterdammerung

21:52 / 14.02.13

What does Glitterdammerung mean?How does it relate to the rest of The Invisibles trilogy? How can it be applied,if it is a magic,to ones own life?
Sorry if I like an ignorant idiot Ive really just started out learning about mysticism and such from Alan Moore's Promethea and Morrisons The Invisibles.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:58 / 20.02.13

It's a pun on Gotterdammerung - the Twilight of the Gods. Except with glitter...

11:49 / 26.05.13

I always thought of it as a Carrol-inspired portmanteau, but one that includes an oxymoron at it's heart. It also acts as a link back to one used much earlier in the series: Apocalipstick - and similarly combines the deadly serious: a dramatic end-of-the-world/ paradigm shift event (Götterdämmerung/ Apocalypse), with something which is inconsequential, superficial, literally 'made-up' - glitter, lipstick, glamour.
But it somehow also suggests that the two are tied together, are part of the same world. Rather than being opposites (binary thinking) they are to be considered as symmetrical parts of a whole. As far as I understand it, this forms the crux of Morrison's primary thought system when writing the series, Chaos Magic.
For me this single word crashes straight into the wider themes of the series - two worlds, two words clashing together to create a single context; the weighty /historical/ profound and the light-as-air /modern/ pop cultural. This literally creates a way out of binary thought, a way out of history.

13:20 / 26.05.13

Thinking more about this....

The word also suggests dread, dead-end, established thinking hand-in-hand with something more ephemeral, changeable and temporal. Both (all) definitions are true, an apocalyse for everyone, depending on the perception of the viewer. Again, a link to Chaos Magic.

Also, might it suggest that rather than being a war-to-end-all-wars, this event will in fact be a party? That we can steal the battle from under the noses of the 'old ones' by subverting it and turning it into a positive experience, and that we should look our best, be our best for it's approach? So that rather than being a full stop, it might just be the climax to this particular set, before the next record comes on and we all dance again..

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:45 / 30.05.13

It's another name for Dragnarok.

18:40 / 11.06.13

Much of the above.

It also ties in with a litany of thought about the interplay between popular culture and eschatology. Suggesting Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius material as an antecedent would be perhaps too aggressive, given the circumstances, but let's note J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and much of the work of Situationist International. The idea that the apocalyptic will be formatted out of the allegedly superficial detritus of our age was hugely formative on the entire generation of writers Morrison belongs to.