{"id":15465,"date":"2014-08-03T02:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:09:55","slug":"weekend-links-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/03\/weekend-links-219\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 219"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grendel Monster (2013) by Anna & Elena Balbusso<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Rick Poynor<\/a> looks at the Guide de la France myst\u00e9rieuse<\/em> (1964), a fantastic (in every sense) doorstop of a volume whose collage alphabet by Roman Cie\u015blewicz can be seen on the cover of Carnival In Babylon<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boolean mathematics, Charles Howard Hinton, The Voynich Manuscript<\/em>, and the effects of surveillance on the political process: Adam Curtis<\/a> firing on all cylinders as usual.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Strange Flowers<\/a>: The Picture of John Gray, remembering the minor fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> figure who gave Oscar Wilde a surname for his most famous creation.<\/p>\n

In \u201c32 Cardinal Virtues of Dennis Cooper,\u201d Wayne Koestenbaum remarks: \u201cCooper\u2019s quest for the unseeable is virtually religious. I mean: sedulous, abstract, perpetual, unrewarded, unreasonable.\u201d There\u2019s much more to be said of Gone<\/em>, its power, its pain, its odd intrigues, but perhaps it will suffice to say that it is<\/em> revealing: unlike Burroughs\u2019 scrapbooks hidden away by some private collector, never to see the light of day, Gone<\/em> (and its sister texts at the Fales Library) illuminate in perpetuity Cooper\u2019s obscure quest for the unseeable.<\/p>\n

Diarmuid Hester<\/a> looks at Dennis Cooper’s scrapbooks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 The Sallow Tree<\/a><\/em>, a single by Lutine. More music: An hour of Julia Holter<\/a>‘s St John’s Sessions performance.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds<\/a>: Christian televangelists listen to Stairway To Heaven<\/em> forwards.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cathy Camper reviews Fearful Hunter<\/em><\/a>, a graphic novel by Jon Macy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: FACT mix 452 by Claude Speeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roman Cie\u015blewicz<\/a> at Pinterest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Adobe Illustrator Story<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The House of Julian<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Unofficial Britain<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II singles: Rattlesnakeplumcake<\/a><\/em> (1970) | Between The Eyes<\/a><\/em> (1970) | Light<\/a><\/em> (1971) | Lemmingmania<\/a><\/em> (1971)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grendel Monster (2013) by Anna & Elena Balbusso. \u2022 Rick Poynor looks at the Guide de la France myst\u00e9rieuse (1964), a fantastic (in every sense) doorstop of a volume whose collage alphabet by Roman Cie\u015blewicz can be seen on the cover of Carnival In Babylon (1972) by Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II. \u2022 Boolean mathematics, Charles Howard … Continue reading “Weekend links 219”<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,4,5,48,3,16,14,31,15],"tags":[498,2169,6315,6321,6119,6322,3555,3109,6319,136,4835,1056,3372,954,551,6320,116,1463,6316,2419,6318],"class_list":["post-15465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-politics","category-religion","category-technology","tag-adam-curtis","tag-amon-duul-ii","tag-anna-elena-balbusso","tag-cathy-camper","tag-charles-howard-hinton","tag-claude-speeed","tag-dangerous-minds","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-diarmuid-hester","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-john-gray","tag-jon-macy","tag-julia-holter","tag-julian-house","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-lutine","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-rick-poynor","tag-roman-cieslewicz","tag-strange-flowers","tag-wayne-koestenbaum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-41r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465","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=15465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}