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Black Sun (1953) by Alexander Calder<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “But Berlin Alexanderplatz<\/em> transcends its genre elements, largely because of D\u00f6blin\u2019s deep lack of hope about what can be expected of human beings.” Adam Kirsch<\/a> on Alfred D\u00f6blin’s Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I occasionally dream of finding books that do not seem to exist (yet), and sometimes remember their titles,” says Mark Valentine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I don’t read fiction.” He does, however, own 11,000 books. Alan Garner<\/a> on writing a memoir of his wartime childhood.<\/p>\n

What is it that I really like? I mean that’s the question that I think every musician and artists and everybody actually, is asking themselves; what they really like. And that means the emphasis is on REALLY like, meaning how do you push aside what you’ve been told, what you’ve been taught, what your friends like, and how much you like something because your friends like it or because it’s socially popular at the moment, or your girlfriend likes it or any of those ideas.<\/p>\n

Jon Hassell<\/a> (again) in an interview at Ableton<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 How Alexander Calder<\/a> sparked a modern fascination with mobiles (sculptures, that is, not telephones).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Deep in Italy, one man’s Surrealist mini-city sleeps: Francky Knapp<\/a> on Tomaso Buzzi’s La Scarzuola.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Even before electricity, robots freaked people out”: Lisa Hix<\/a> on the history of clockwork automata.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nicolas Winding Refn’s website<\/a> devoted to neglected\/abandoned films was launched this week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT Mix 664 by Lucy<\/a>, and XLR8R Podcast\u00a0552 by Thomas Fehlmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jean-Paul Goude<\/a>‘s best photograph: an androgynous Grace Jones.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marquis de Sade<\/em><\/a>: 112 pages, 100 erotic illustrations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The world’s most beautiful libraries<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sade Masoch<\/a><\/em> (1968) by Bobby Callender | I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Grace Jones | Black Sun<\/a><\/em> (2011) by Demdike Stare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Sun (1953) by Alexander Calder. \u2022 “But Berlin Alexanderplatz transcends its genre elements, largely because of D\u00f6blin\u2019s deep lack of hope about what can be expected of human beings.” Adam Kirsch on Alfred D\u00f6blin’s Berlin. \u2022 “I occasionally dream of finding books that do not seem to exist (yet), and sometimes remember their titles,” … Continue reading “Weekend links 424”<\/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":[8,2,42,29,7,3,44,12,13,41,18],"tags":[8351,634,3260,9405,8516,2609,9638,2236,7624,212,7370,9640,2903,4840,5614,9641,9639],"class_list":["post-18804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-science","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","tag-adam-kirsch","tag-alan-garner","tag-alexander-calder","tag-alfred-doblin","tag-bobby-callender","tag-demdike-stare","tag-francky-knapp","tag-grace-jones","tag-jean-paul-goude","tag-jon-hassell","tag-lisa-hix","tag-lucy-musician","tag-mark-valentine","tag-marquis-de-sade","tag-nicolas-winding-refn","tag-thomas-fehlmann","tag-tomaso-buzzi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Ti","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804","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=18804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}