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’11 SLIFF BUZZ PEACE ???

by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Film, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, Mystery, Objects, Poet, Politics, Review, Sound, STL, Teach, Time, Video

– more about non-violent media – PEACE My short review: Are you familiar with Barthes’ “Degree Zero of Writing,” Lévinas’s philosophy of caress* or Ozu’s elliptical cinema? For the viewer of this astounding film these came to mind, but all that is required is the...

???? Up the Yangtze

by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2011 | Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Future Tech, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Women

An important documentary about contemporary China. Its website. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Ajahn Chah ?? ??????? (Achaan Chah) Website

by Pier Marton | Sep 26, 2011 | Asia, Books, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Highlights, Ideas, Mystery, Now, Site

I am sorry about the ?? instead of the Thai characters – on my previous WordPress.com blog, it worked fine. I have tried some of the tips provided here – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save?replies=39 – but I need...

To Catch a Dollar: (Nobel Peace Prize) Muhammad Yunus Banks on America

by Pier Marton | Sep 14, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Doc, Eco, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Politics, Women

The film’s website. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

The School of No-Media © Marton 2011

by Pier Marton | Sep 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Dance, Eco, Ego, Food, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Teach, Women

A free online university?! Want to join? The universe is watching the sprouts grow… ____________________ ____________________ “Substance is what remains when everything you can think of has gone.” Eli Siegel “Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction): (YOU WILL) KNOW...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus