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Atelier Pré-Textes & Sous-Titres

by Pier Marton | May 15, 2011 | Books, Ego, France, Idées, KeyText, Poet, Quotes, Text

Atelier d’écritureS pré-textes & sous-titres. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Pier Marton’s Student Support Page 2

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Teach

Some other excerpts: One-of-a-kind teacher, a genuine mentor, someone who cares about each of his students’ projects… In my four years there, I was frequently asked to work, but almost never to think. Pier’s classes were the exception. He challenged...

Pier Marton’s Student Support Page 1 (Out of 3)

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Teach

Excerpts here: Explaining the impact Pier Marton has had on me is like explaining the impact of a close friend or family member… Pier Marton is a treasure. — Stefan Block. His first book, The Story of Forgetting, was translated into twelve languages, his...

Facebook’s page: PIER MARTON: We Cannot Let Him Go

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Politics, Site

As they say in French, this is about “bibi.” EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Pier Marton: “Those that live are those that struggle.” V. Hugo (revisited)

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle

Photo: D. Hayes The RiverFront Times writes about this particular struggle Right now it may misdirect the reader into thinking that the Hitchcock film class (!) was my course, it was NOT. It was another faculty’s in the same Film and Media Studies Program. To...

The Thinking Person’s Guide to the Holocaust

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars

A Way To Begin Following that article, I have added a few of my recommendations. It is very good to have Améry, along with Shoah by Lanzmann, and Primo Levi. They know that one CANNOT understand anything about the Shoah, the prerequisite for any “inquiry.”...

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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