{"id":18147,"date":"2016-12-11T01:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T01:10:09","slug":"weekend-links-339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/12\/11\/weekend-links-339\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 339"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Untitled (2011) by Roger Hiorns. Photograph by Kate Green.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Most surprising and troubling of all is the status of a series of new paintings, also depicting naked male bodies. The figures look archaic, painted using latex and molten and folded plastic. They have sex with each other and with themselves. Extra penises float about, and fill any otherwise unoccupied orifice. There\u2019s a lot of rogering going on, anal and oral, the figures consumed entirely by the act.” Adrian Searle<\/a> reviews Roger Hiorns’ latest show at the Ikon Gallery<\/a>, Birmingham.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “At the heart of magical belief is the belief in your own free will, in your ability to make changes and influence the world. It wasn\u2019t accepting your circumstances, it was working to understand and directly change them.” Jessa Crispin<\/a> on the women of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Addison Nugent<\/a> on William Hope Hodgson: “The Forgotten Bodybuilding, Shark-Fighting Sailor who Invented Cosmic Horror (and annoyed Houdini)”. I’d quibble with the “forgotten”\u2014Hodgson is sometimes overlooked but not exactly unknown\u2014but the appraisal is welcome.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More end-of-year lists: The Quietus<\/a> posts its Albums of the Year, Bandcamp<\/a> does the same, while Adrian Curry<\/a> at MUBI announces his favourite film posters of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Callum James<\/a> has devised The Quite Difficult Book Quiz for those who’d like a challenge (and a donation to charity) over Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “A profoundly poetic anomaly”: Kenan Malik<\/a> on the Tantric paintings that pre-empt Modernist abstraction.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Patricia M’s Flickr albums<\/a> contain a wealth of antique graphic design, advertising art and undigitised letterforms.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Cronky, shonky, soggy, knackered”: Simon Reynolds<\/a> on ten years of Moon Wiring Club.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Michael LePointe<\/a> on the delightful mysteries of The Voynich Manuscript<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Veloelectroindustrial<\/a>: Wandering the wastelands of former industry.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 202 by JG Biberkopf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Was Edmund Wilson jealous of Lolita<\/em>?” asks Alex Beam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Research finds MP3s drain your music of emotion.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Richard H. Kirk<\/a>‘s favourite albums.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pavel Banka<\/a>‘s surreal abstractions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dennis Cooper<\/a>‘s Alan Clarke Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cosmic Surfin’<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Yellow Magic Orchestra | Cosmic Meditation<\/a><\/em> (1991) by Moondog | Cosmic Call<\/a><\/em> (2006) by The Evpatoria Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untitled (2011) by Roger Hiorns. Photograph by Kate Green. \u2022 “Most surprising and troubling of all is the status of a series of new paintings, also depicting naked male bodies. The figures look archaic, painted using latex and molten and folded plastic. They have sex with each other and with themselves. Extra penises float about, … Continue reading “Weekend links 339”<\/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":[8,2,42,4,29,7,22,3,16,44,12,31,18,15,19,10],"tags":[8637,5355,8636,1115,8642,771,3109,6631,7228,8060,8641,8635,4913,8638,1019,1537,8643,1254,8634,1216,8644,2439,8640,807,8639,1951,4255],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-photography","category-religion","category-surrealism","category-technology","category-television","category-typography","tag-addison-nugent","tag-adrian-curry","tag-adrian-searle","tag-alan-clarke","tag-alex-beam","tag-callum-james","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-edmund-wilson","tag-hermetic-order-of-the-golden-dawn","tag-jessa-crispin","tag-jg-biberkopf","tag-kate-green","tag-kenan-malik","tag-michael-lepointe","tag-moon-wiring-club","tag-moondog","tag-pavel-banka","tag-richard-h-kirk","tag-roger-hiorns","tag-simon-reynolds","tag-the-evpatoria-report","tag-the-quietus","tag-veloelectroindustrial","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-voynich-manuscript","tag-william-hope-hodgson","tag-yellow-magic-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","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=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}