{"id":27618,"date":"2024-11-16T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27618"},"modified":"2024-11-16T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T18:39:56","slug":"weekend-links-752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/11\/16\/weekend-links-752\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 752"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Captain Nemo by Alphonse de Neuville, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1875) by Jules Verne.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “…physical remoteness is a category of its own. It is an enhancer: It can make the glorious better and the terrible worse. The oceanic pole of inaccessibility distills physical remoteness on our planet into a pure and absolute form. […] Point Nemo is nearly impossible to get to and offers nothing when you arrive, not even a place to stand. It is the anti-Everest: It beckons because nothing is there.” Cullen Murphy<\/a> explores the remotest place on Earth. A long and fascinating read, but no mention of Point Nemo’s dreaming tenant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More Bumper Book<\/em> business: Smoky Man has posted the second part of his analysis of the book for (Quasi)<\/a> (in Italian) which includes some comments from myself about the origin of the Moon and Serpent Magical Alphabet, and why the letter Q in the alphabet is assigned to Cthulhu. Elsewhere, Panini have announced an Italian edition<\/a> of the Bumper Book<\/em> for May next year, while at The Beat Steve Baxi<\/a> reviewed the book from a philosophical perspective.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: David Parkinson<\/a> on where to begin with Louis Feuillade. I’d suggest starting with Fant\u00f4mas<\/em> rather than Les Vampires<\/em> but then I’m biased<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The combination of magic(k)al, ceremonial action, vivid colour and paradoxically serious camp in Jarman\u2019s Super 8 films of the \u201970s bears the influence of Kenneth Anger, but the differences between Jarman\u2019s sensibility and Anger\u2019s are more striking than the resemblances. Jarman\u2019s vision is more materialist, austere and hermetic, and less sociological; where Anger identifies the glamour of American popular culture with the Will of the Crowleyan magician, Jarman situates the discovery of the cinematographic mechanism imaginatively within the history of alchemy. Anger cast rock stars as gods and adepts with the intention of harnessing the energy of their recognition; Jarman casts Fire Island, then in its heyday as a gay resort, as a desert defined by sculptural details and occupied by a single masked figure, in scenes that both recall his landscape paintings of the \u201960s and \u201970s and anticipate the design of his garden at Dungeness.<\/p>\n

Luke Aspell<\/a> on Derek Jarman’s hermetic film\/painting, In the Shadow of the Sun<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: \u201cVisions of nuclear-powered cars captivated Cold War America, but the technology never really worked<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At The Spectator<\/em> podcast: host Sam Leith talks to Michael Moorcock<\/a> about 60 years of New Worlds<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: \u201cLight from the Darkness\u201d \u2014 Paul Nash\u2019s Genesis<\/em><\/a> (1924).<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Bandcamp: \u201cDisco godfather Cerrone<\/a>\u2019s enduring influence on dance music\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Unquiet Things: The Art of Survival: Eyeball Fodder in Dark Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: DreamScenes \u2013 November 2024<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: The Laugh Is In The Eyes<\/em><\/a> by Julia Holter.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At The Daily Heller: The College of Collage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP jazz drummer Roy Haynes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Thermonuclear Sweat<\/em><\/a> (1980) by Defunkt | Nuclear Drive<\/em><\/a> (1982) by Hawkwind | Nuclear Substation<\/em><\/a> (2005) by The Advisory Circle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Captain Nemo by Alphonse de Neuville, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1875) by Jules Verne. \u2022 “…physical remoteness is a category of its own. It is an enhancer: It can make the glorious better and the terrible worse. The oceanic pole of inaccessibility distills physical remoteness on our planet into a pure and … Continue reading “Weekend links 752”<\/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 752","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":[2,42,1029,7,5,48,43,3,16,44,20,13,15,23],"tags":[3659,13685,3277,104,13731,8415,13736,511,222,715,3372,401,130,13733,65,346,13261,13735,13734,1878,13732,1253],"class_list":["post-27618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-collage","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-technology","category-work","tag-alphonse-de-neuville","tag-bumper-book-of-magic","tag-cerrone","tag-cthulhu","tag-cullen-murphy","tag-david-parkinson","tag-defunkt","tag-derek-jarman","tag-hawkwind","tag-jules-verne","tag-julia-holter","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-louis-feuillade","tag-luke-aspell","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-new-worlds","tag-paul-nash","tag-roy-haynes","tag-sam-leith","tag-smoky-man","tag-steve-baxi","tag-the-advisory-circle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","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=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}