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Fathomless Sounding (1932) by Gertrude Hermes.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Over at Greydogtales<\/a> (“weird fiction, weird art and even weirder lurchers”) I talk about art, design, the writing of this blog, and I also reveal more about my ongoing Axiom project. The latter currently stands at two novels, a couple of half-finished stories and a few pieces of artwork. I may be unveiling some of the art in the new year so watch this space.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Howard Brookner’s Burroughs: The Movie<\/em> (1983), a definitive film portrait of William Burroughs, is released at last on DVD\/Blu-ray<\/a>. US-only for the moment but further releases elsewhere are promised. The director’s nephew, Aaron Brookner, has a documentary about his uncle<\/a> released next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…beautifully articulated bawdiness, perverse pleasures and a radical, though nondidactic, political view.” Melissa Anderson<\/a> reviews Boyd McDonald’s Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method. Many of today\u2019s theorists \u2014 chief among them the proponents of string theory and the multiverse hypothesis \u2014 appear convinced of their ideas on the grounds that they are beautiful or logically compelling, despite the impossibility of testing them. Ellis and Silk accused these theorists of \u201cmoving the goalposts\u201d of science and blurring the line between physics and pseudoscience. \u201cThe imprimatur of science should be awarded only to a theory that is testable,\u201d Ellis and Silk wrote, thereby disqualifying most of the leading theories of the past 40 years. \u201cOnly then can we defend science from attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Natalie Wolchover<\/a> on A Fight for the Soul of Science<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: A mix by Front & Follow<\/a>, and The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. XIV by David Colohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Psychedelics can\u2019t be tested using conventional clinical trials,” says Nicolas Langlitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Ralph Steadman<\/a> illustrates Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Why does Moby-Dick<\/em> (sometimes) have a hyphen? Erin Blakemore<\/a> investigates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My thanks again to Dennis Cooper<\/a> for including this blog on his year-end list.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cian Traynor was given 20 minutes to ask Ennio Morricone<\/a> some questions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lolita<\/em> at 60<\/a>: Ten writers reconsider Nabokov\u2019s novel, page by page.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Ballardian<\/a>: High-Rise<\/em>: Wheatley vs Cronenberg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Poison Ivy<\/a>: The Queen of Psychobilly Punk<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Cinema of Hotels: a list<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Solo intimacy DIY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Moby Dick<\/a><\/em> (1970) by Led Zeppelin | William Burroughs Don’t Play Guitar<\/a><\/em> (1996) by Islamic Diggers | Physical<\/a><\/em> (2001) by Goldfrapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fathomless Sounding (1932) by Gertrude Hermes. \u2022 Over at Greydogtales (“weird fiction, weird art and even weirder lurchers”) I talk about art, design, the writing of this blog, and I also reveal more about my ongoing Axiom project. The latter currently stands at two novels, a couple of half-finished stories and a few pieces of … Continue reading “Weekend links 289”<\/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":[8,2,30,42,4,851,7,5,48,3,20,13,19,23],"tags":[4335,4936,7777,6664,7160,2207,3109,4189,7878,7876,7873,5154,7744,504,678,7880,7879,137,551,7874,601,7875,7877,111,665,213,807,1190],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-television","category-work","tag-aaron-brookner","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-boyd-mcdonald","tag-cian-traynor","tag-david-colohan","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-ennio-morricone","tag-erin-blakemore","tag-front-follow","tag-gertrude-hermes","tag-goldfrapp","tag-greydogtales","tag-herman-melville","tag-howard-brookner","tag-islamic-diggers","tag-ivy-rorschach","tag-jg-ballard","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-melissa-anderson","tag-moby-dick","tag-natalie-wolchover","tag-nicolas-langlitz","tag-ralph-steadman","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-the-cramps","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","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=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}