{"id":31621,"date":"2026-09-05T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=31621"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:29:10","slug":"weekend-links-846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/09\/05\/weekend-links-846\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 846"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/borges.jpg\" alt=\"borges.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Design by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randoll_Coate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randoll Coate<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallpaper.com\/design-interiors\/labirinto-borges-venice-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labirinto Borges<\/a>, a hedge maze at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, which was renovated earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;<em>Code<\/em> was probably our most overtly political record, which is interesting, touring and playing it in these very different but scary political times.\u201d\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/igloomag.com\/profiles\/cabaret-voltaire-back-in-the-noise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Mallinder<\/a> of Cabaret Voltaire talking about the experience of touring America again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At The Daily Heller: A look at the work of designer\/illustrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printmag.com\/daily-heller\/the-daily-heller-george-hardie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Hardie<\/a> whose five-decade career is to be celebrated in <a href=\"https:\/\/londondesignfestival.com\/activities\/george-hardie-archaeology-in-observation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a retrospective exhibition<\/a> in London. There&#8217;s more George Hardie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/VTS\/aoi\/h\/hardieg\/menugh.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Almost as soon as <em>weird<\/em> began circulating outside of <em>Macbeth<\/em>, its meaning broadened too, from \u2018eerie\u2019 and \u2018uncanny\u2019 to \u2018odd\u2019 or \u2018unusual\u2019.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlanguagesociety.com\/p\/weird-is-a-weird-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Gorrie<\/a> on the weird history of the word &#8220;weird&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At The Quietus: <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/opinion-and-essays\/anniversary\/no-longer-lost-david-sylvians-gone-to-earth-at-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toby Manning<\/a> on 40 years of <em>Gone To Earth<\/em> by David Sylvian. A minor nitpick: the album&#8217;s art and design was by Russell Mills, not Vaughan Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/kalimalone.bandcamp.com\/album\/burning-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Burning Song<\/em><\/a> by Kali Malone; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/obsessive-surrealism-din26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obsessive Surrealism<\/a> by Parallel Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Door Of Perception: The radical architectural designs of <a href=\"https:\/\/doorofperception.com\/2026\/08\/eugene-tssui-evolutionary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene Tssui<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DJ Food&#8217;s latest accumulation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djfood.org\/psychedelic-graphics-from-the-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psychedelic graphics from the desktop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Old music: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4QvGuvredQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When The Music&#8217;s Over (Live, 1970)<\/a><\/em> by The Doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/bakers-dozen\/arthur-brown-interview-favourite-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Brown<\/a>&#8216;s favourite songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com\/track\/wierd-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Weird Dream<\/em><\/a> (1976) by Harmonia | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajKd4zuamvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>It&#8217;s So Weird<\/em><\/a> (1983) by Bush Tetras | <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodceremony.bandcamp.com\/track\/ballad-of-the-weird-sisters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ballad Of The Weird Sisters<\/em><\/a> (2013) by Blood Ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design by Randoll Coate for the Labirinto Borges, a hedge maze at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, which was renovated earlier this year. \u2022 &#8220;Code was probably our most overtly political record, which is interesting, touring and playing it in these very different but scary political times.\u201d\u200b Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire talking about the &hellip; 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