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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...

Washington University and Pier Marton 02 (with QRs and comments)

by Pier Marton | Sep 12, 2011 | Eco, Ego, Health, Human Rights, Media, Politics, STL, Teach

A link to the Post-Dispatch article by Bill McClellan with some comments by readers (and QRs) – and a PDF that can be easily printed (and posted around?) – Make sure you visit also these Washington University Students Letters: One Set of Letters from Washington...

’11 SLIFF BUZZ: To Be Heard

by Pier Marton | Aug 30, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Music, Poet, Racism, Review, STL

Short review: Power Writing to create that safe place to be in/out of the hood. A student shouts “Poetry is rehab!” – a teacher inspires students to “pass the test of life… at a very special level, far beyond their subsistence” and hopes “to produce literate, ethical,...

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...

Jean Painlevé: 1902-1989

by Pier Marton | Aug 21, 2011 | Art, Care, Dance, Doc, Eco, Exp, Film, France, Idées, Mystery, Objects, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat, Sound, Spectacle, Travel

Science is Fiction! His website/son site web et un court-métrage hommage. http://youtu.be/6pHd1n4mAm4 http://youtu.be/-pbjG8X0BxI http://youtu.be/MfMeXel1gDw http://youtu.be/vlgJ5Jk30zk Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share...

David Servan-Schreiber: 1961-2011

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, Eco, Food, France, Health, Ideas, Idées

His last text/book: “We Can Tell Each Other Goodbye Several Times.” The first question raised by my state of health: “does my relapse damages the credibility of the anticancer method?“, I answer categorically not. Firstly because I am not a scientific experiment to me...

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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