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Imaginary Numbers (1954) by Yves Tanguy.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “In all his writing, Ballard seems to embrace the opposed extremes of pulp genre conventions on the one hand and avant-garde experimentation on the other, while entirely rejecting the norms of conventional literary fiction that lie between these two extremes.” Steven Shaviro<\/a> reviewing The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of JG Ballard<\/em> by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Naturalist\u2019s Library<\/em><\/a>: A complete digital edition of William Jardine\u2019s 40-volume series on natural history published 1833\u20131843.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Cooked<\/em><\/a> by Oren Ambarchi; Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun<\/em><\/a> by Abul Mogard \/ Rafael Anton Irisarri.<\/p>\n \u2022 Richard Dadd<\/a>: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Colossal: “Trompe-l\u2019\u0153il paintings by Jason Limon<\/a> reveal a hidden skeletal world.”<\/p>\n \u2022 “Adam Rowe<\/a> is writing a new book about science fiction art.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: DreamScenes \u2013 July 2026<\/em><\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Sam Neill<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Curationist<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 The Skeleton And The Roundabout<\/em><\/a> (1968) by The Idle Race | Skeletal Framework<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Eyeless In Gaza | Skeletal Remains<\/em><\/a> (2002) by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imaginary Numbers (1954) by Yves Tanguy. \u2022 “In all his writing, Ballard seems to embrace the opposed extremes of pulp genre conventions on the one hand and avant-garde experimentation on the other, while entirely rejecting the norms of conventional literary fiction that lie between these two extremes.” Steven Shaviro reviewing The Illuminated Man: Life, Death … Continue reading “Weekend links 839”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 839","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,29,7,48,3,44,20,13,18],"tags":[14016,12551,2028,14677,5104,14679,137,3179,10179,529,113,14680,14676,6875,14678,348],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-surrealism","tag-abul-mogard","tag-adam-rowe","tag-bohren-der-club-of-gore","tag-christopher-priest","tag-eyeless-in-gaza","tag-jason-limon","tag-jg-ballard","tag-nina-allan","tag-oren-ambarchi","tag-rafael-anton-irisarri","tag-richard-dadd","tag-sam-neill","tag-steven-shaviro","tag-the-idle-race","tag-william-jardine","tag-yves-tanguy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-8aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","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=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31419,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions\/31419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}