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Seishu Hanaoka’s Wife (1970) by Awazu Kiyoshi<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft & Rootwork<\/a>: a colossal new addition to the Internet Archive, being a 5-volume, 4766-page collection of folkloric material gathered by Harry Middleton Hyatt in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia between 1936 and 1940.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Edward Gorey is the theme du jour<\/em>, so here’s some more: Gorey’s 1977 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show<\/em><\/a> is revelatory, especially if you’ve never seen him talking before. Meanwhile, Laughing Squid<\/a> has a previously unpublished interview in which Gorey discusses his love for his disruptive cats.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jeff Nuttall’s mid-century survey of the aesthetic underground, Bomb Culture<\/em><\/a>, receives a fiftieth anniversary republication by Strange Attractor. The new edition is edited by Douglas Field and Jay Jeff Jones, with a foreword by Iain Sinclair and an afterword by Maria Fusco.<\/p>\n

I have always questioned identity politics with my work. I often have characters that engage in homosexual sex but do not identify as gay (hustlers, neo-Nazi skinheads, extreme left wing revolutionaries, gerontophiles, etc.). But my films have also always been inclusive in terms of race, class, and gender. I find that the new emphasis on identity politics has really narrowed creative expression. It demonstrates a profound ignorance about sexuality, history, and human experience.<\/p>\n

My sexual identity is pretty much fixed\u2014I\u2019m a Kinsey 6, if not a 7\u2014but I acknowledge that this means I\u2019m sexually repressed. I believe, after Freud, that everyone has some bisexual potential, and the tendency to increasingly entrench gender identity as innate and immutable is really preposterous. It also leads to strict rules about sexual representation\u2014how gays, lesbians and transgender people “must” be portrayed, the policing of representation, a kind of proprietary stance about who is allowed to portray these characters.<\/p>\n

It really boils down to a naivety about sexuality, and a complete failure of the imagination. It discourages people who may have the potential for some kind of sexual fluidity to express themselves. I\u2019ve always been a “bad gay,” but now this political correctness has made me feel even more alienated from the notion of “gay identity”\u2014particularly since the new assimilationist model is so conservative and dull.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce<\/a> discussing art, porn and politics with Ho\u00e7\u00e2 Cov\u00e9 Mbede<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “Who is Barbara Baranowska? Despite the so-called Polish Poster School\u2019s fame, certain people were seemingly forgotten. Perhaps they even wanted it that way…” Daniel Bird<\/a> on an elusive artist. Related: Selected works by Barbara Baranowska<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I don\u2019t think I\u2019m ever mean-spirited and I try to understand human behaviour even though it\u2019s impossible,” says John Waters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nine Dimensional Synod Of Oblique Pleasures<\/em><\/a> is a very welcome new release by The Wyrding Module.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Galerie Dennis Cooper presents\u2026The Resplendent Illegibility of Extreme Metal Logos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Apocalypse Burlesque<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Tales of Doomsday Eros: a new book by Supervert.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rare booksellers rallied against an Amazon-owned company and won<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 B. Alexandra Szerlip<\/a> on the 80-year history of the ballpoint pen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Anjelica Huston<\/a>: how we made The Addams Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 270 by Okkre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Cabinet of the Quay Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Hoodoo Man Blues<\/a><\/em> (1965) by Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band | Evil Hoodoo<\/a><\/em> (1966) by The Seeds | I Been Hoodood<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Dr John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seishu Hanaoka’s Wife (1970) by Awazu Kiyoshi. \u2022 Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft & Rootwork: a colossal new addition to the Internet Archive, being a 5-volume, 4766-page collection of folkloric material gathered by Harry Middleton Hyatt in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia between 1936 and 1940. \u2022 … Continue reading “Weekend links 438”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,2,42,4,29,7,5,3,16,14,15],"tags":[9792,9783,9791,9242,399,2094,9789,3109,9786,186,2313,9784,9790,218,9787,9785,1812,9794,9788,9793,98,1037,8383,5641,5337],"class_list":["post-18924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-politics","category-technology","tag-anjelica-huston","tag-awazu-kiyoshi","tag-b-alexandra-szerlip","tag-barbara-baranowska","tag-brothers-quay","tag-bruce-labruce","tag-daniel-bird","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-douglas-field","tag-dr-john-musician","tag-edward-gorey","tag-harry-middleton-hyatt","tag-hoca-cove-mbede","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-jay-jeff-jones","tag-jeff-nuttall","tag-john-waters","tag-junior-wells-chicago-blues-band","tag-maria-fusco","tag-okkre","tag-strange-attractor","tag-supervert","tag-the-addams-family","tag-the-seeds","tag-the-wyrding-module"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924","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=18924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}