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Dwellers of the Sea (1962) by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Conan Stories<\/em><\/a> by Robert E. Howard.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Colossal: “Uncanny personalities appear from nature in Malene Hartmann Rasmussen<\/a>\u2019s ceramics.”<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Glory Black<\/em><\/a> by Sunn O))); Through Lands Of Ghosts<\/em><\/a> by Foster Neville; Sirenoscape<\/em><\/a> by NIMF.<\/p>\n If we insist that art functions as a tool for promoting a limited set of political principles, what happens when an ideology that doesn\u2019t share our values sweeps into power? Learning to engage with complexity is a necessary skill if we are ever to drag ourselves out of the puerile swamp of the culture wars. But if we continue to reduce art to moralistic soundbites, we will only succeed in stripping it of its capacity to transform us, which would be a huge loss. Art can help us to better understand ourselves, and the world we live in, by expressing those things that words cannot. It exposes us to a vast range of experiences, and asks us to sit with the fundamental ambivalences, moral complexities and conflicting emotions that are a part and parcel of being human.<\/p>\n Rosanna McLaughlin<\/a> on attempts to make art of the past reflect the moral platitudes of the present<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Strange Attractor<\/a> is having a winter sale with 30% off all its available titles.<\/p>\n \u2022 At the BFI: Miriam Balanescu<\/a> selects 10 great filmmaker biopics.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: DreamScenes \u2013 January 2026<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Strange World of…Free Jazz & Improvised Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Free<\/em><\/a> (1991) by Mazzy Star | The Free Design<\/em><\/a> (1999) by Stereolab | Everything Is Free<\/em><\/a> (2001) by Gillian Welch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dwellers of the Sea (1962) by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. \u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard. \u2022 At Colossal: “Uncanny personalities appear from nature in Malene Hartmann Rasmussen\u2019s ceramics.” \u2022 New music: Glory Black by Sunn O))); Through Lands Of Ghosts … Continue reading “Weekend links 813”<\/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 813","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":[2,42,21,7,3,44,14,41],"tags":[14371,14373,6152,14372,2427,14077,14374,1278,14375,2407,98,2147],"class_list":["post-29663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-politics","category-sculpture","tag-eugene-von-bruenchenhein","tag-foster-neville","tag-gillian-welch","tag-malene-hartmann-rasmussen","tag-mazzy-star","tag-miriam-balanescu","tag-nimf","tag-robert-e-howard","tag-rosanna-mclaughlin","tag-stereolab","tag-strange-attractor","tag-sunn-o"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7Ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29663","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=29663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}