by Pier Marton | Aug 12, 2010 | Art, Books, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, History, Human Rights, KeyText, Politics, Racism, Site, Spectacle, Wars
A hero of mine, showing the true face of war (what no army ever wants you to consider, and no government/media ever truly acknowledges). Writing, after WWI, a book against war in four languages to prevent future wars. His museum, not the common war museum, but an...
by Pier Marton | Aug 11, 2010 | Art, Books, France, Humor, Ideas, Idรฉes
Toutes les idรฉes que lโon peut exprimer avec un mรชme son, ou une suite de sons semblables, ont une mรชme origine et prรฉsentent entre elles un rapport certain, plus ou moins รฉvident, de choses existant de tout temps ou ayant existรฉ autrefois dโune maniรจre continue ou...
by Pier Marton | Aug 10, 2010 | Books, Doc, Eco, Humor, Ideas, Idรฉes, Politics, Quotes, Time
When men stop believing in God, it isnโt that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection โ not an invitation for hypnosis. I...
by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2010 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Books, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Women
โIn this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.โ And a quote from another text, as excerpted by Peter Fredlake of the USHMM โ thank you: โThe historianโs task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Books, Ideas, Jewish, Mystery
โMysticism, when transposed from the warm twilight of myth and fiction to the cold searchlight of fact and reason, has usually little left to recommend itself. Its language, unless resounding within its own magic or mystic circle, will often appear poor and even...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Art, Books, Ideas, KeyText, Media, Spectacle
Art is not a mirror to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it. The essential point of epic theater is perhaps that appeals less to the feelings than to the spectatorโs reason. โย Bertolt Brecht Mass (and most) media seeks a captive audience. You want to...