The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I would add that it is NOT just musicians] Bob is survived by his wife and partner of 15 years,...
Read MoreFrederick Douglass in 1857: “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress” a Wikipedia entry + More below. On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history of British efforts toward emancipation as well as a...
Read MoreIsaac Deutscher & The Non-Jewish Jew/Le Juif Non-Juif/Der Nichtjüdischer Jude/El non-judío Judío/A Nem-Zsidó Zsidó
Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and exterminated. I am a Jew because I l feel the Jewish tragedy as my own tragedy; because I feel...
Read MoreHours & Hours of Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) His Decalogue (1951) and another earlier post (with other interviews, etc…). More interviews with Bertrand Russell (but NOT Alan Watts) And his Reith...
Read MoreStephen Colbert & His Double (the Well-Intentioned Poorly Informed High Status Idiot)
POLITICS MEANS I AM NOT TELLING YOU MY INTENTIONS. I am showing you an action that is causing a reaction from you while I am playing another chess piece over here. And together I will triangulate some secretive way where I WILL ACHIEVE POWER OVER YOU. I am not trying to get power over anybody. (reminds you of some workplaces?) Regarding A Man of All...
Read More(Amos) Oz v’ Shalom – Strength and Peace (in Hebrew): Against the Fanatics
Amos Oz is visiting England… 1. From his talk on the Middle East and the prospect of future co-existence between Israel and Palestine on BBC’s Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival (45 min.) – available for one more year: - We have to reach a livable compromise between Israelis and Palestinians, otherwise all of the work of bringing the two...
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Pier Marton
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Born and raised in Paris, Pier Marton moved to the U.S. in the early seventies to live in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and, more recently, St. Louis; in parallel to teaching media at major universities, his many video-art activities have included video installations, performances and documentaries (with works in prominent museums like MoMA and Beaubourg).
As new media offers more and more a form of pseudo-challenge to the status quo, for Pier Marton it is “no-media” that now represents the next frontier: to look beyond media and most concepts, however "practical" those may appear to be.
He is available for presentations and workshops on:
Non-Images & No-Media - Slow Cinema - Shoah and Film- Experimental Cinema and Video Art - Film Painting in Sound/Movement - Non-Violent Media - Imperfection in Film - Unclassifiable Music/Arts - Blinded by Sight - The Shoah in 1,000 Years - A Porous Reality - Secular Jews - Taking it the Hard Way - Exhilarating Creativity - and anything else that may be ignored by society at large.
Remnants from recent presentations: Images of the Other (at the School of Visual Arts Alguonquin Annual Conference), Resistance (at a St. Louis Yom HaShoah Commemoration).
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Laure Adler
Conversations-surprises: si vous avez besoin de continuer à rester éveillé, et n’avez pas peur.
François Busnel
D’autres conversations…
Raphaêl Enthoven
Et philosopher à haute voix.
