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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...

Pier Marton & Washington University in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Sep 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Spectacle, STL, Teach

Defending, once more, the underdog in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thank you, Bill! BILL MCCLELLAN: A MAN OF THE ARTS ENDURES HARD TIMES “Not so long ago, Pier Marton seemed a picture of success. He taught at Washington University in the film and media studies...

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...

JEWish IDentity (whispered)

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Antisemitism, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Racism, Shoah, Sounds, Wars

by Roger Cohen in the New York Times “The lesson is clear: Jews, with their history, cannot become the systematic oppressors of another people. They must be vociferous in their insistence that continued colonization of Palestinians in the West Bank will increase...

This is NOT about Pier Marton! – 01 (around L.A.)

by Pier Marton | Aug 19, 2011 | Art, Care, Death, Eco, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Humor, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Teach, Theater, Women

Alexandra Jensen, Jim Wolfe Jr., Robert Panico, Jacob Kieval, and Joey Clarke!! 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...

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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