Hauntology

no entries here for a while, so 2 bits linked in the Guardian today are worth a rummage, the Ashmolean exhibition looks the tits

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/01/the-limits-of-reason-philip-pullman-on-why-we-believe-in-magic

https://www.ashmolean.org/spellbound

I'd love to get over for that, looks class. Got massive respect for Philip Pullman, read HDM at a formative age and it blew me away, superlative.

Jon Brooks' new Mixcloud activity:

https://www.mixcloud.com/cafekaput/

It's that time of year, Samhain!

https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2018/10/24/folklore-thursday-samhain-and-the-celtic-vampires/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

New podcast about Broadcast's Tender Buttons:

https://jeremydylan.net/podcast/3f46ej4fjew5yp7f8y7p7887eyr3dk?fbclid=IwAR1fV51DiN9oNGnWk9dCCddjj0J66eNUM0-W6XIkwLeerrQjVPUzGQm0TdM

Another Samhain mix:

https://m.mixcloud.com/The_Ephemeral_Man/samhain-séance-seven-a-very-dark-place/?fbclid=IwAR2zdDtC3ySk2-3UnGRfewdcE3Xpx5rvh5Df3NKzCMrz-gu2BEUXQszo_hM

A right nice group of people, with their heads on straight.

Another quality Halloween EP from this guy:

https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com

Wyrd Kalendar Winter Mix:

https://m.mixcloud.com/Wyrd_Kalendar/wyrd-kalendar-winter/?fbclid=IwAR3QJjz__v2a5CGWOsKCx8XxvhtZkrk6hMuU3J4JvyqtP9xHDMhxIDlabpU

  On 3/1/2019 at 3:28 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what-is-hauntology-and-why-is-it-all-around-us/p0729knv

nice, enjoyed that clip

stunning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00038l1

and the soundtrack:

https://adrianutleywillgregory.bandcamp.com/album/arcadia-music-from-the-motion-picture

have to say i find this stuff p embarrassing. akin to glenn danzig talking about werewolves and vampires. reallllllllllly cringey.

Yes, but you love Spurs.

Agreed, the new weird Britain tag only adds to the bs, so if the BBC is inter avinit then that pretty much says it all. There's good music in & around, about 4% like most genres, but the rest is just the relationship between individuals, social norms & resultant cultural processes innit.

At least have a watch of Arcadia or you come across as a bit of a div. If Derek Jarman had done it, it would've been breathlessly lapped up by the cocknoscenti. It's got a sweet spectrum of audio in the soundtrack too.

well i went through this thread hoping my initial suspicions were incorrect, and they were. this is much much more embarrassing than i had imagined. 

well now you're just being cunty belligerent oh arbiter of all that is cool n the gang, add the same ingredients in a dodgy metal &/or kitsch cinematic context & irony cherubs like yourself lap it up

this thread has been open for a few years, so you've had plenty of time to gestate an opinion & drop a deuce on it, at least offer a critique beyond some brief ejaculated man-child grunt, or not, it doesn't change very much either way

seems people had fun discussing different definitions & interpretations here, a raft of tunes, the relationships between sites, myths, folklore & archaeology, one or two exhibitions etc, but also note zero "∆‡∆" symbols of the kind whateverthefuck this was:

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/60284-

if Arcadia & owt else herein offend your sensibilities so much much, just log in to the chatroom or wiki Spurs continued league failings against the Big Four for a change, there's a good lad

Watched Arcadia this evening whilst nursing a St. Paddy's hangover, thought it was top notch, some real strangeness in there (particularly liked the auld boy with the dowsing rod), tuneage was excellent

Will Abberley takes a journey into the strange and unsettling world of the English Eerie and discovers a growing movement of artists, writers and musicians exploring impressions of the ‘Eerie’ in the landscape. The idea of uncanny forces which resonate in a place, the buried traumas and sufferings which lie just under the surface of a landscape has always inspired artists. But in recent years there’s been a resurgence of interest in the Eerie in art as well as ecology and archaeology. It’s in the songs of PJ Harvey, the compositions of Richard Skelton, the nature writing of Helen Macdonald and Robert MacFarlane and the films of Tacita Dean and Ben Wheatley. Will speaks to some of these artists to understand why and how the tradition of the Eerie is being revived in response to contemporary fears and crises. He travels to the Wirral to meet film maker Adam Scovell who argues there’s a positive force in engaging with the Eerie in an era when the British landscape is at the centre of environmental and political conflicts. Ecologist Timothy Morton suggests the Eerie builds renewed interest and respect for a landscape. In the remote Pennines Will meets composer and writer Richard Skelton whose most recent works are a summoning call to those species now extinct in our landscape. Artist Tacita Dean also describes her ongoing pull towards the most ancient parts of England where a feeling of fear sharpens her ability to engage with the environment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002zmr

I think this blog would be of great interest to anyone on this thread: we are the mutantshere's their about page info:

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We Are the Mutants is a weekly updated magazine focusing on the history and analysis of Cold War-era popular and outsider culture, with a strong emphasis on speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror), genre, pulp, cult, occult, subculture, and anti-establishment media. We cover everything from underground comics and post-apocalyptic fictions to ufology tropes and space disco.

Although our area of concentration is the late 1960s through the early 1980s, any compelling artifact produced between V-E Day and the fall of the Berlin Wall is fair game. We will also explore contemporary material on occasion, especially works that creatively subvert the status quo.

The title of the magazine is taken from graffiti seen at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1960s: “The bomb has already dropped, and we are the mutants.”

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They take submissions for articles FYI

Nice compilation for the haunted types 'round here:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/176694-various-spectra-ex-machina-a-sound?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tuesday Update 21st May 2019&utm_content=Tuesday Update 21st May 2019+CID_7717a50c37cb2fa580bd65b6a06bdeed&utm_source=EmailMarketingSoftware&utm_term=Spectra Ex Machina A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol1 Various