{"id":19192,"date":"2019-06-16T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19192"},"modified":"2019-06-16T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:03:34","slug":"weekend-links-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/06\/16\/weekend-links-469\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 469"},"content":{"rendered":"

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X from Theodore Howard\u2019s ABC (1880) by Theodore Howard.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “[Parade<\/em>] has everything: joy and sadness, get-down and wistfulness, mourning and melancholia, group funk and Debussy interludes, echoes of Ellington, Joni, film music, chanson. It\u2019s a perfectly realised whole.” Ian Penman<\/a> on the enigmas and pleasures of Prince.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Mescaline<\/em> reads like the culmination of a lifetime\u2019s wanderings in the very farthest outposts of scientific and medical history.” Ian Sansom<\/a> review’s Mike Jay’s history of the psychedelic alkaloid.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Day the Music Burned by Jody Rosen<\/a>: “It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business\u2014and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.”<\/p>\n

This willing constriction of intellectual freedom will do lasting damage. It corrupts the ability to think clearly, and it undermines both culture and progress. Good art doesn\u2019t come from wokeness, and social problems starved of debate can\u2019t find real solutions. \u201cNothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word,\u201d Orwell wrote in 1946. \u201cWhat is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.\u201d Not much has changed since the 1940s. The will to power still passes through hatred on the right and virtue on the left.<\/p>\n

George Packer<\/a> on what George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four means today<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Having spent the past week watching Jacques Rivette’s 775-minute Out 1<\/em><\/a>, this interview<\/a> with Rivette from 1974 was of particular interest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Donald Sutherland as “a sperm-filled waxwork with the eyes of a masturbator” in Fellini\u2019s Casanova<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Adventures of the Son of Exploding Sausage<\/em><\/a> (1969): the Bonzo Dog Band getting it untogether in the country.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dark, velvety dark: Nabokov’s discarded ending to Camera Obscura<\/em>, introduced by Olga Voronina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit”, says Liz Pelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Then Space Began To Toll by The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An interview with master of horror manga Junji Ito<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Announcing the Arthur Machen Essay Prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP film-maker and author Peter Whitehead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 X is for…<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 X Offender<\/a><\/em> (1976) by Blondie |\u00a0X-Factor<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Patrick Cowley | X-Flies<\/a><\/em> (1997) by Mouse On Mars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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