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The Bookworm (no date) by Arthur Paunzen.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 New Cabaret Voltaire: Nag Nag Nag (Live 2025 Single Edit)<\/em><\/a>. Good to hear they’ve reinstated the Patrick Moore dialogue sample, something that’s on the studio version but usually missing from live recordings. The single is a trailer for a forthcoming album based on the group’s recent anniversary tour.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians<\/em><\/a> (1981), a wacky Czech comedy, one of many directed by Old\u0159ich Lipsk\u00fd. With a story by Jules Verne, music by Lubo\u0161 Fi\u0161er, and steampunk props by Jan \u0160vankmajer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More new music: Butch’s Guns<\/em><\/a> by Sunn O)));\u00a0Sidings<\/em><\/a> by Craven Faults; Frequencies In The Fog<\/em><\/a> by Rod Modell.<\/p>\n

What strikes me most is the difference between people who\u2019ve learned to construct what I call “containers for attention”\u2014bounded spaces and practices where different modes of engagement become possible\u2014and those who haven\u2019t. The distinction isn\u2019t about intelligence or discipline. It\u2019s about environmental architecture. Some people have learned to watch documentaries with a notebook, listen to podcasts during walks when their minds can wander productively, read physical books in deliberately quiet spaces with phones left behind. They\u2019re not rejecting technology. They\u2019re choreographing it.<\/p>\n

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem, says librarian Carlo Iacono<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 At Colossal: “Striking photos by Peter Li capture the soaring majesty of sacred spaces<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven<\/a> (ca. 1300).<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: Brogan Morris<\/a> selects 10 great political thrillers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Roland Topor’s Brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Robert Duvall<\/a> and Tom Noonan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Book Lovers<\/em><\/a> (1997) by Broadcast | Tiny Golden Books<\/em><\/a> (2000) by Coil | Library Of Solomon Book 2<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Demdike Stare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bookworm (no date) by Arthur Paunzen. \u2022 New Cabaret Voltaire: Nag Nag Nag (Live 2025 Single Edit). Good to hear they’ve reinstated the Patrick Moore dialogue sample, something that’s on the studio version but usually missing from live recordings. The single is a trailer for a forthcoming album based on the group’s recent anniversary … Continue reading “Weekend links 818”<\/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 818","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":[8,2,42,7,3,12,14,20,15],"tags":[14420,4158,14425,150,14424,2272,14422,2609,375,715,5149,14428,10794,14423,14426,13755,896,249,2147,14427],"class_list":["post-29756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-music","category-photography","category-politics","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-arthur-paunzen","tag-broadcast-group","tag-brogan-morris","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-carlo-iacono","tag-coil-group","tag-craven-faults","tag-demdike-stare","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-jules-verne","tag-lubos-fiser","tag-oldrich-lipsky","tag-patrick-moore","tag-peter-li","tag-robert-duvall","tag-rod-modell","tag-roland-topor","tag-steampunk","tag-sunn-o","tag-tom-noonan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7JW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756","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=29756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}