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The Tower of Babel from Turris Babel (1679) by Athanasius Kircher, showing how wide the Tower would have to be at its base to reach the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The week’s literary resurrection: Penguin announced Shadow Ticket<\/em><\/a>, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon. “Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he\u2019s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who\u2019s taken a mind to go wandering…”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The week’s musical resurrection: Stereolab announced Instant Holograms On Metal Film<\/em><\/a>, their first new album since Not Music<\/em> in 2010. Aerial Troubles<\/em><\/a> is the new single with a video which has prompted complaints in the comments about the use of AI treatments for the visuals.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss\u2019 Retrofuturism<\/a>, a long read by Eva Miller. Previously: The Metropolis of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a> by Hugh Ferriss.<\/p>\n

\u2022 This week in the Bumper Book of Magic<\/em>: Ben Wickey is selling some of the original art<\/a> from his Lives of the Great Enchanters<\/em> pages.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: The Golden Age of Second-Hand Bookshops is now. Mark Valentine<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Alvin Lucier is still making music four years after his death \u2013 thanks to an artificial brain<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Colossal: Hundreds of fantastic creatures inhabit a sprawling universe by Vorja S\u00e1nchez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming soon from Radiance Films: A blu-ray disc of Essential Polish Animation<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pattern design and illustration by Gail Myerscough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steven Heller\u2019s font of the month is Homage Script<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Sabi<\/em><\/a> by Odalie.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Max Romeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Babylon<\/em><\/a> (1968) by Dr John | War In A Babylon It Sipple Out Deh<\/em><\/a> (1976) by Max Romeo | Babylonian Tower<\/em><\/a> (1982) by Minimal Compact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tower of Babel from Turris Babel (1679) by Athanasius Kircher, showing how wide the Tower would have to be at its base to reach the Moon. \u2022 The week’s literary resurrection: Penguin announced Shadow Ticket, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon. “Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he\u2019s found job security … Continue reading “Weekend links 773”<\/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 773","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":[52,8,2,42,9,4,29,7,3,20,15,10],"tags":[3512,215,13327,13594,13926,13928,398,2903,12110,1613,13929,2407,5991,13927],"class_list":["post-28017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-technology","category-typography","tag-alvin-lucier","tag-athanasius-kircher","tag-ben-wickey","tag-dr-john","tag-eva-miller","tag-gail-myerscough","tag-hugh-ferriss","tag-mark-valentine","tag-max-romeo","tag-minimal-compact","tag-odalie","tag-stereolab","tag-thomas-pynchon","tag-vorja-sanchez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7hT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017","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=28017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}