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15 Miles into the Earth (1944) by Hendrik Wijdeveld.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “He realized that there were individuals around him who had never appeared in the great altarpieces and frescoes, individuals who had been marginalized by the cultural ideology of the previous two centuries. And there were hours of the day\u2014transient, yet unequivocal in their lighting\u2014which had never been reproduced, and which were pushed so far from habit and use that they had become scandalous, and therefore repressed.” Pasolini<\/a> on Caravaggio.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Reading Albert Camus and Mikhail Bulgakov by day, by night, crucially, they were listening to Chic, Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Michael Rother and Grace Jones in the clubs.” Graeme Thomson<\/a> on the atmosphere and influences that helped create my favourite album by Simple Minds, Empires And Dance<\/em>. Borges was also a minor influence, apparently, which wasn’t something I knew until this week. I like it when your favourite things join up this way.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “This being England, a \u2018tea shop\u2019 is not a shop that sells tea. That would be a tea merchant. A tea shop serves tea.” Mark Valentine<\/a> on the perennial connections between rambling and tea-drinking.<\/p>\n

Talking about generations as if they really existed and had sway over people is much more respectable and widespread than the belief that events and personalities are governed by the movements of the planets. But is there really much more substance and reality to \u201cgenerations\u201d? If not \u201ca bunch of bullshit\u201d, the discourse of generations is certainly generative of bullshit: tenuously grounded overviews and opinion pieces, specious analysis and analogies, platitudes and truisms. And yet, like astrology, it is a fun game to play along with. And far more than astrology, it\u2019s a mode of talk that partially constitutes its object: generalizing about a generation actually brings it into semi-existence, shaping how people perceive themselves and how they are perceived by earlier or later generations. What may just be an illusion, a shaky set of alleged affinities, becomes a social fact.<\/p>\n

Simon Reynolds<\/a> analyses the generation game<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 More Milton Glaser: PDFs of the Glaser Gazette<\/em>, a memorial publication in three parts: Vol 1<\/a> | Vol 2<\/a> | Vol 3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Tractatus Lyra-Organismus<\/em><\/a> by Lyonel Bauchet, and Grounded Rectangle<\/em><\/a> by Ambidextrous.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 DJ Food found a handful of psychedelic posters by Nicole Claveloux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Rights to Jorge Luis Borges\u2019s work go to his wife\u2019s nephews<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Is this the earliest known phallic art?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Young Generation Dub<\/em><\/a> (1976) by Augustus Pablo | Chile Of The Bass Generation<\/em><\/a> (1990) by Mental Cube | Invisible Generation<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Cabaret Voltaire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15 Miles into the Earth (1944) by Hendrik Wijdeveld. \u2022 “He realized that there were individuals around him who had never appeared in the great altarpieces and frescoes, individuals who had been marginalized by the cultural ideology of the previous two centuries. And there were hours of the day\u2014transient, yet unequivocal in their lighting\u2014which had … Continue reading “Weekend links 680”<\/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":"","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":[8,2,42,27,4,3,44,17,41],"tags":[10748,12926,7347,150,226,12924,12921,1483,12925,2903,12927,12923,3130,1534,1493,1216,6781],"class_list":["post-23003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-design","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","category-sculpture","tag-albert-camus","tag-ambidextrous-musician","tag-augustus-pablo","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-caravaggio","tag-graeme-thomson","tag-hendrik-wijdeveld","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-lyonel-bauchet","tag-mark-valentine","tag-mental-cube","tag-mikhail-bulgakov","tag-milton-glaser","tag-nicole-claveloux","tag-pier-paolo-pasolini","tag-simon-reynolds","tag-simple-minds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003","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=23003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}