{"id":21183,"date":"2021-12-18T19:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:31:19","slug":"weekend-links-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/12\/18\/weekend-links-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 600"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My kind of window. From a collection of machine-learning images by Unlimited Dream Co.<\/a> Via Bruce Sterling<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “I will never call myself a queer. That word is one of the things that I detest that has happened, and it\u2019s almost being forced now. For me, you cannot separate that word from the hatred and violence that once accompanied it. When I read it being used in The New York Times<\/em>, I think, ‘It\u2019s their word and they can fucking have it all they want.’ I will never use ‘queer.’ It\u2019s an ugly word.” John Rechy<\/a>, still active at the age of 90, talking to Jeff Weiss about hustling, social opprobrium, and his pioneering books.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “At a time when we are being constantly told that humanity is destroying the planet, it is somehow comforting to see nature not merely outlasting, but triumphing over humanity\u2019s constructions\u2014as nature does in many of Piranesi\u2019s Views of Rome<\/em>.” Alasdair Palmer<\/a> on Piranesi’s peerless renderings of Roman ruins.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The magical aspect of Get Back<\/em> is its total refusal to adhere to the standard tropes of music documentaries. There are no talking heads commenting on the Beatles\u2019 greatness, no continual barrage of quick edits and highlights.” Geeta Dayal<\/a> on Peter Jackson’s resurrection of the Fab Four.<\/p>\n

But men are not traditionally meant to be objects of art. \u201cMen look at women,\u201d John Berger wrote. \u201cWomen watch themselves being looked at.\u201d When men look at men, however, they break rules. \u201cI didn\u2019t set out to be radical,\u201d says Miller. \u201cBut I was at a fair and I had a huge nude on a stand by Michael Leonard<\/a>. I\u2019d only been open ten minutes and a woman started having a go and saying it\u2019s filth. What I found fascinating is she\u2019d walked past a whole span of female nudes. I think society is just immune to female nudity. People don\u2019t see it. If you take this to the straight world of an art fair, it provokes reactions other dealers don\u2019t get. There isn\u2019t anyone else like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tony Wilkes talks to Henry Miller<\/a>, owner of an art gallery devoted to the male form<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “I imagine men with starched collars, horrified by an animal with no hard edges to grab onto, no solidity to venerate. Something low, lateral, creeping.” Fiona Glen<\/a> on “Devil Fish”, Cthulhu and cephalomania.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I like glowing things so Brian Eno’s glowing record turntable<\/a> has an immediate appeal. A shame it’s a very limited production which is almost certainly sold out by now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The next release on the Ghost Box label will be A Letter from TreeTops<\/em> by Pneumatic Tubes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: A Sight for Sore Eyes Vol. 1<\/em><\/a>, a visual history of The Residents.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: Mark Valentine on the supernatural thrillers of Archie Roy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: A reflection on 2021 at A Strangely Isolated Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Swan River Press<\/a> looks back over a year of book production.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Spherical Harmonics<\/em><\/a> by Joseph Hyde.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Octopus’s Garden<\/a><\/em> (1969) by The Beatles | The Kraken<\/em><\/a> (2006) by Hans Zimmer | Kraken<\/a><\/em> (2017) by Dave Clarkson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My kind of window. From a collection of machine-learning images by Unlimited Dream Co. Via Bruce Sterling. \u2022 “I will never call myself a queer. That word is one of the things that I detest that has happened, and it\u2019s almost being forced now. For me, you cannot separate that word from the hatred and … Continue reading “Weekend links 600”<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 600","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":[8,2,42,29,21,7,5,22,3,13,15],"tags":[11964,11958,11963,145,2503,1952,104,11967,11961,1393,172,11966,6492,11957,1744,4779,11965,2903,4024,11959,139,11962,8228,178,879,11960,11956],"class_list":["post-21183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-science","category-technology","tag-a-strangely-isolated-place","tag-alasdair-palmer","tag-archie-roy","tag-brian-eno","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-cephalopods","tag-cthulhu","tag-dave-clarkson","tag-fiona-glen","tag-geeta-dayal","tag-ghost-box","tag-hans-zimmer","tag-henry-miller","tag-jeff-weiss","tag-john-berger","tag-john-rechy","tag-joseph-hyde","tag-mark-valentine","tag-michael-leonard","tag-peter-jackson","tag-piranesi","tag-pneumatic-tubes","tag-swan-river-press","tag-the-beatles","tag-the-residents","tag-tony-wilkes","tag-unlimited-dream-co"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5vF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183","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=21183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}