{"id":12034,"date":"2012-09-23T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12034"},"modified":"2013-02-02T03:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:32:59","slug":"weekend-links-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/23\/weekend-links-127\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 127"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whirlpool.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

M15, The Whirlpool Galaxy photographed by Martin Pugh. The overall and deep space winner of Astronomy Photographer of the Year<\/a>, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Final Academy<\/em>, the series of William Burroughs-themed events that took place in London and Manchester in 1982, will be celebrated at the Horse Hospital<\/a>, London, on 27th October. Academy 23<\/em>, a publication edited by Matthew Levi Stevens, will include my report on the Manchester Ha\u00e7ienda performances.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Architects are the last people who should shape our cities,” says the thrillingly pugnacious Jonathan Meades<\/a> in a piece from his new writing collection Museums Without Walls<\/em>. Andy Beckett reviews the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ex-Minimal Compact singer\/bassist Malka Spigel<\/a> talks about her new album, Every Day Is Like The First Day<\/em>, which can be streamed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s new about the current acknowledgments page is that it\u2019s unsolicited\u2014it appears like an online pop-up ad, benefiting no one but the author and his comrades. This is surely why these afterwords are often so garrulously narcissistic and strewn with clich\u00e9s. The most radical experimentalist adheres to the most mindless acknowledgments-page formula; the most stinging social critic suddenly becomes Sally Field winning an Oscar.<\/p>\n

Sam Sacks<\/a> at the New Yorker on the blight of novelists’ acknowledgments pages. DG Myers<\/a> at Commentary Magazine piles on.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Another streaming album: Composed<\/em> by Jherek Bischoff<\/a>. Try Insomnia, Death & The Sea<\/em><\/a> featuring Dawn McCarthy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Film of Lindsay Kemp<\/a> being interviewed in 1977 about his production of Salom\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Electronic Performers<\/a><\/em> (2004): a video by Machine Molle for the song by Air.<\/p>\n

\"djuna.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One of a series of Beardsley-like drawings by Djuna Barnes posted at Strange Flowers<\/a>. The resurgent Ms. Barnes is mentioned three times in this Terry Castle review<\/a> of\u00a0All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Fictitious Dishes<\/em>, meals from novels photographed by Dinah Fried<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Life, the Dinosaurs & Everything: Cosmicomics<\/em> by Italo Calvino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Baby Died<\/a>: Morbid Curiosities found in Old Newspapers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Portishead’s Adrian Utley<\/a> gives a tour of his synth collection.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Minimal Compact: Babylonian Tower<\/em><\/a> (1982) | Not Knowing<\/em><\/a> (1984) | When I Go<\/em><\/a> (1985) | Nil Nil<\/em><\/a> (1987).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M15, The Whirlpool Galaxy photographed by Martin Pugh. The overall and deep space winner of Astronomy Photographer of the Year, 2012. \u2022 The Final Academy, the series of William Burroughs-themed events that took place in London and Manchester in 1982, will be celebrated at the Horse Hospital, London, on 27th October. Academy 23, a publication … Continue reading “Weekend links 127”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,2,30,42,28,29,7,3,12,13,46],"tags":[4068,3295,4060,3325,4063,4067,3596,3876,407,4061,4059,1178,4065,4066,3872,517,4057,4058,1613,615,123,4062,2419,4064,1190],"class_list":["post-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-burroughs","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-photography","category-science","category-theatre","tag-adrian-utley","tag-air-group","tag-andy-beckett","tag-dawn-mccarthy","tag-dg-myers","tag-dinah-fried","tag-djuna-barnes","tag-hacienda","tag-italo-calvino","tag-jherek-bischoff","tag-jonathan-meades","tag-lindsay-kemp","tag-lisa-cohen","tag-machine-molle","tag-malka-spigel","tag-manchester","tag-martin-pugh","tag-matthew-levi-stevens","tag-minimal-compact","tag-portishead","tag-salome","tag-sam-sacks","tag-strange-flowers","tag-terry-castle","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-386","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}