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The Surrealist (1947) by Victor Brauner<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Terry Ratchett presents…18 needlessly obscured avant-garde films<\/a> by Thomas White, Teinosuke Kinugasa, George Barry, Standish Lauder, Helge Schneider, Dusan Makavejev, Oliver Herrmann, Mauricio Kagel, Mamoru Oshii, Gian Carlo Menotti, Pat O\u2019Neill, Vera Chytilov\u00e1, Shozin Fukui, Willard Maas, Djouhra Abouda and Alain Bonnamy, Juraj Herz, and Jay Schlossberg-Cohen.<\/p>\n \u2022 “When I\u2019m convinced that a certain type of book is completely beyond the capacities of my temperament and my technical skills, I sit down at my desk and start writing it.” Italo Calvino<\/a> discussing his approach to writing in 1983. The essay, The Written World and the Unwritten World<\/em>, gives its title to a collection of previously unavailable Calvino pieces translated by Ann Goldstein. John Self<\/a> reviewed the book.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Komplett Kollaps (A Dedication To J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson)<\/em><\/a> by R\u00fanar Magn\u00fasson, and Composition 1<\/em><\/a> by Deathprod.<\/p>\n Brann\u2019s new book sweeps across the vast range of things that hold her interest. It thus invites us to enjoy the life of the mind and to live from our highest selves. A thoughtful encounter with this book will make you, I swear, a better person. The book includes chapters on Thing-Love, the Aztecs, Athens, Jane Austen, Plato, Wisdom, the Idea of the Good. The first half provides an on-ramp to the chapter titled \u201cOn Being Interested,\u201d which falls in the dead centre of the book. This central chapter serves as more than a cog in the wheel: it is an ars poetica. Addressing issues of attention, focus, and interest itself, as well as how and where to deploy these functions throughout our lives, \u201cBeing Interested\u201d offers a solution for any seeker intrigued by the notion that happiness is not an accident but a vocation. Brann characterizes the pursuit of happiness as \u201contological optimism [\u2026] to be maintained in the face of reality\u2019s recalcitrance.\u201d<\/p>\n Peggy Ellsberg<\/a> reviewing The Habit of Interestedness by Eva Brann<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 “God told me I should take more LSD.” Sari Soininen<\/a> on her acid-induced photographs.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: The Procession of the Months<\/em><\/a> by Walter Crane.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: See the chilling beauty of winter on Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Edie & Eddy Slab<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Michael Snow<\/a>, film-maker and musician.<\/p>\n \u2022 Kollaps<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten | Feed The Collapse<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Main | Collapsing Inwards<\/em><\/a> (2014) by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Surrealist (1947) by Victor Brauner. \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Terry Ratchett presents…18 needlessly obscured avant-garde films by Thomas White, Teinosuke Kinugasa, George Barry, Standish Lauder, Helge Schneider, Dusan Makavejev, Oliver Herrmann, Mauricio Kagel, Mamoru Oshii, Gian Carlo Menotti, Pat O\u2019Neill, Vera Chytilov\u00e1, Shozin Fukui, Willard Maas, Djouhra Abouda and Alain Bonnamy, Juraj Herz, and … Continue reading “Weekend links 655”<\/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 655","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":[2,42,851,7,3,44,12,13,18,10],"tags":[12614,12607,1906,3109,12613,12601,2826,12610,12598,12604,12600,407,12606,7864,11590,5097,124,2926,8557,12603,3764,12602,6647,12609,12608,12611,12605,12599,12597,8860,12596,6974,3129,549,929],"class_list":["post-22340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-science","category-surrealism","category-typography","tag-alain-bonnamy","tag-ann-goldstein","tag-deathprod","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-djouhra-abouda","tag-dusan-makavejev","tag-einsturzende-neubauten","tag-eva-brann","tag-george-barry","tag-gian-carlo-menotti","tag-helge-schneider","tag-italo-calvino","tag-jay-schlossberg-cohen","tag-johann-johannsson","tag-john-self","tag-juraj-herz","tag-lsd","tag-main-group","tag-mamoru-oshii","tag-mauricio-kagel","tag-michael-snow","tag-oliver-herrmann","tag-pat-oneill","tag-peggy-ellsberg","tag-runar-magnusson","tag-sari-soininen","tag-shozin-fukui","tag-standish-lauder","tag-teinosuke-kinugasa","tag-terry-ratchett","tag-thomas-white","tag-vera-chytilova","tag-victor-brauner","tag-walter-crane","tag-willard-maas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340","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=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}