{"id":28255,"date":"2025-07-19T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28255"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:32:21","slug":"weekend-links-787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/07\/19\/weekend-links-787\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 787"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Noonday Heat (1903) by Henry Scott Tuke.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 It may still be summer but the Halloween film reissues are already being announced. This year Radiance Films is presenting two features by Belgian director Harry K\u00fcmel: the lesbian vampire drama Daughters of Darkness<\/em> (UHD+BD<\/a> | BD<\/a>), and Malpertuis<\/em><\/a>, K\u00fcmel’s adaptation of the Jean Ray fantasy novel. This week I’ve been watching Polish animated films on Radiance’s just-released Essential Polish Animation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Colossal: Dennis Lehtonen<\/a> documents a pair of immense icebergs paying a visit to a small Greenland village.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: ShoreZone<\/em><\/a>, nine short stories by dramatist David Rudkin.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the extraterrestrials that xenolinguists claim to seek are often beings imagined to have technologies, minds or languages similar to ours. They are projections of ourselves. This anthropomorphism risks blinding us to truly alien communicators, who are radically unlike us. If there are linguistic beings on planets such as TOI-700 d or Kepler-186f, or elsewhere in our galaxy, their modes of communication may be utterly incomprehensible to us. How, then, can xenolinguistics face its deficit of imagination?<\/p>\n

Perhaps by re-engaging its speculative origins. Through the mode of thought characteristic of science fiction, the science of alien language might yet learn to open itself to every conceivable degree of otherness, even the possibility of beings that share nothing with us but the cosmos.<\/p>\n

Eli K P William<\/a> on problems in xenolinguistics<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 DJ Food’s latest foray into pop psychedelia is a look at the psych influence on the teen romance comics of the late 1960s: part 1<\/a> | part 2<\/a> | part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: DreamScenes \u2013 July 2025<\/a> at Ambientblog, and Bleep Mix #305<\/a> by Adam Wiltzie.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The hot tar splashed everywhere.” Dale Berning Sawa<\/a> on Derek Jarman’s Black Paintings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Unquiet Things: Meet your friendly neighbourhood art book author & book seller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Winners of the 2025 Big Picture natural world photography competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: Rory Doherty<\/a> chooses 10 great heatwave films.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The closest images ever taken of the Sun\u2019s atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kae Tempest\u2019s favourite records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Heat<\/a><\/em> (1983) by Soft Cell | Heatwave<\/em><\/a> (1984) by The Blue Nile | Heatwave<\/em><\/a> (1987) by Univers Zero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noonday Heat (1903) by Henry Scott Tuke. \u2022 It may still be summer but the Halloween film reissues are already being announced. This year Radiance Films is presenting two features by Belgian director Harry K\u00fcmel: the lesbian vampire drama Daughters of Darkness (UHD+BD | BD), and Malpertuis, K\u00fcmel’s adaptation of the Jean Ray fantasy novel. … Continue reading “Weekend links 787”<\/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 787","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":[52,2,42,9,4,21,7,5,22,3,44,12,17,20,13],"tags":[11281,14085,1114,14082,511,14084,14081,6309,9610,14087,14083,14086,3066,8813,8107,14088],"class_list":["post-28255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-psychedelia","category-science-fiction","category-science","tag-adam-wiltzie","tag-dale-berning-sawa","tag-david-rudkin","tag-dennis-lehtonen","tag-derek-jarman","tag-eli-k-p-william","tag-harry-kumel","tag-henry-scott-tuke","tag-jean-ray","tag-kae-tempest","tag-radiance-films","tag-rory-doherty","tag-soft-cell","tag-strange-attractor-press","tag-the-blue-nile","tag-univers-zero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7lJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255","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=28255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}