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, Idées
Toutes les idées que l’on peut exprimer avec un même son, ou une suite de sons semblables, ont une même origine et présentent entre elles un rapport certain, plus ou moins évident, de choses existant de tout temps ou ayant existé autrefois d’une manière continue ou...
by Pier Marton | Aug 10, 2010 | Books, Doc, Eco, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Politics, Quotes, Time
When men stop believing in God, it isn’t 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 — not an invitation for...
by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2010 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Books, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Women
“In this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.” And a quote from another text, as excerpted by Peter Fredlake of the USHMM – thank you: “The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Books, Ideas, Jewish, Mystery
“Mysticism, 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 spectator’s reason. — Bertolt Brecht Mass (and most) media seeks a captive audience. You...