{"id":18799,"date":"2018-07-29T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18799"},"modified":"2018-07-29T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:56:13","slug":"weekend-links-423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/07\/29\/weekend-links-423\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 423"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homodesiribus.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/delmas-howe-1935.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"howe.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/howe.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Miracle (Genet&#8217;s Dream) (2001) by <a href=\"https:\/\/homodesiribus.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/delmas-howe-1935.html\" target=\"_blank\">Delmas Howe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from &#8216;interesting-ish research&#8217; to &#8216;sensationalized crap&#8217;.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jul\/25\/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Schwartz<\/a> on how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Aesthetics of Science Fiction: what does SF look like after cyberpunk? Very Brutalist if you ask <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/adjacent-possible\/the-aesthetics-of-science-fiction-what-does-scifi-look-like-after-cyberpunk-ba9f1991e75c\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Liebling<\/a>, although the first example shown in his piece\u2014the Brunel University Lecture Centre\u2014appears briefly as future architecture in <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Expanding Mind: Erik Davis talks with philosopher and religious studies professor <a href=\"https:\/\/techgnosis.com\/the-practice-of-skepticism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Atlas<\/a> about ancient skepticism, Madhyamaka Buddhism, the taste of honey, Montaigne, Robert Anton Wilson, and the path of doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muddycolors.com\/2018\/07\/best-covers-of-2018-pt-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muddy Colors<\/a>: Part 1 of their choices for best fantasy book covers of the year so far, a list which includes my cover for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/09\/08\/moonshine-by-jasmine-gower\/\"><em>Moonshine<\/em> by Jasmine Gower<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Soundtracking with Edith Bowman, episode 84: director <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/6782050-episode-84-director-todd-haynes-on-the-music-of-wonderstruck-i-m-not-there-carol-far-from-heaven\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Haynes<\/a> on the music of <em>Wonderstruck<\/em>, <em>I&#8217;m Not There<\/em>, <em>Carol<\/em> and <em>Far From Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT mix 663 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2018\/07\/24\/space-afrika-fact-mix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Afrika<\/a>, Secret Thirteen Mix 262 by <a href=\"https:\/\/secretthirteen.org\/stm-262-mieko-suzuki\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mieko Suzuki<\/a>, and Black Minimalism, a playlist by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/audio\/tracks\/wire-playlist-black-minimalism\" target=\"_blank\">David Toop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Two minutes, eight barrels: drone and GoPro footage of surfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/760ad0f3d8084dc9b9c38debbda8acf8\/2-minutes,-8-barrels:-Surfer-takes-an-epic-ride-into-history\" target=\"_blank\">Koa Smith<\/a> riding the waves of the Namibia shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 David Lynch\u2019s Sacred Clay: <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/david-lynchs-sacred-clay\/#!\" target=\"_blank\">Shehryar Fazli<\/a> reviews <em>Room to Dream<\/em> by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jul\/28\/myth-monsters-and-the-maze-how-writers-fell-in-love-with-the-labyrinth\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Higgins<\/a> on myths, monsters and the maze: how writers fell in love with the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Monstrous Geometries in the Fiction of HP Lovecraft by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/34439682\/Monstrous_Geometries_in_the_Fiction_of_H.P._Lovecraft\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Ingwersen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/what-does-saturn-sound-like\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the mournful wails of planets and moons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Peel Session by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TPjv26bEHn0\" target=\"_blank\">Laika<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DIKh4kJRlEE\" target=\"_blank\">Surf Ride<\/a><\/em> (1956) by Art Pepper | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oMh1GCkxAmY\" target=\"_blank\">Surf<\/a><\/em> (1976) by Tim Blake | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yXmIqUaPgGE\" target=\"_blank\">Surfside Sex<\/a><\/em> (1982) by Patrick Cowley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miracle (Genet&#8217;s Dream) (2001) by Delmas Howe. \u2022 &#8220;Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from &#8216;interesting-ish research&#8217; to &#8216;sensationalized crap&#8217;.&#8221; Oscar Schwartz on how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong. \u2022 The Aesthetics of Science Fiction: what does SF &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/07\/29\/weekend-links-423\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 423&#8221;<\/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":[8,2,42,21,7,5,22,26,3,44,20,13,15,23],"tags":[9636,6954,265,412,9624,9628,9629,1686,1687,9071,4418,9633,1803,9635,9631,9634,9138,9626,3697,9627,89,9632,9630,9000,3074,9625],"class_list":["post-18799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-technology","category-work","tag-art-pepper","tag-charlotte-higgins","tag-david-lynch","tag-david-toop","tag-delmas-howe","tag-dustin-atlas","tag-edith-bowman","tag-erik-davis","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jasmine-gower","tag-john-peel","tag-koa-smith","tag-kristine-mckenna","tag-laika-group","tag-mieko-suzuki","tag-moritz-ingwersen","tag-muddy-colors","tag-oscar-schwartz","tag-patrick-cowley","tag-rick-liebling","tag-robert-anton-wilson","tag-shehryar-fazli","tag-space-afrika","tag-tim-blake","tag-todd-haynes","tag-zachary-lipton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799","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=18799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}