{"id":19826,"date":"2020-06-28T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19826"},"modified":"2020-06-29T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:02:45","slug":"weekend-links-523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/06\/28\/weekend-links-523\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 523"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of Ian Miller<\/a>‘s drawings from the illustrated edition of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, 1979.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “I always said we were kind of an electronic punk band, really. We were never New Romantics, I don\u2019t like it when we get lumped in with that.” Dave Ball<\/a> of Soft Cell and The Grid talking to Duncan Seaman about his autobiography, Electronic Boy: My Life In and Out of Soft Cell<\/em><\/a>. I’ll now be waiting impatiently for the unreleased Robert Fripp\/Grid album to appear.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “[Patricia] Highsmith\u2019s writing\u2014often eviscerating, always uncomfortable\u2014has never been more relevant,” says Sarah Hilary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ron Peck’s debut feature, Nighthawks<\/em> (1978), is “a nuanced look at gay life in London,” says Melissa Anderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And then there are those figures who seem to flit around the edges of movements without ever being fully involved in any of them, who pursue their own eccentric paths no matter what is going on around them. These are the writers who make up the secret history of literature, the hidden history that\u2019s not easily reduced to movements or trends, and who always waver on the verge of invisibility until you stumble by accident onto one of their books and realize how good they actually are, and wonder, Why wasn\u2019t I told to read this before? But of course you already know the answer: You were not told because it doesn\u2019t fit smoothly into the story those in authority made up about what literature is\u2014it disrupts, it can\u2019t be reduced to the literary equivalent of a meme.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the kind of writer Pierre Klossowski (1905\u20132001) is. He is not a joiner. He has his own particular and often peculiar concerns, and pursues them. He does not particularly welcome you in. The content of his writing, too, has the feel of a gnostic text, as if you are reading something that, if only you were properly initiated, you would understand in a different way. In that sense his work has an esoteric or occult quality to it\u2014and likewise in the sense that it returns again and again to the intersection of religion and pornography, the sacred and the profane.<\/p>\n

Brian Evenson<\/a> on The Suspended Vocation by Pierre Klossowski<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Chad Van Gaalen creates a psychedelic animation for Seductive Fantasy<\/a><\/em> by the Sun Ra Arkestra.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More sneak peeks from the forthcoming The Art Of The Occult<\/em><\/a> by S. Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More Robert Fripp: Richard Metzger<\/a> on Fripp’s sui generis<\/em> solo album, Exposure<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pamela Hutchinson<\/a> on the pleasures of David Lynch’s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: a second Jon Hassell tribute mix by Dave Maier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Ferdinand presents\u2026Dark Entries Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 15 fascinating art documentaries to watch now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Soft Power<\/em><\/a> by Patten.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Milton Glaser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 hauntolog\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Aquarium<\/em><\/a> (1992) by The Grid (with Robert Fripp) | Soft Power<\/em><\/a> (2005) by Ladytron | The Martian Chronicles<\/em><\/a> (2007) by Dimension X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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