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Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. Click to email a link to a...

Sampling du Sampler Hugues Le Bars!

by Pier Marton | Apr 17, 2011 | Art, Audio, Dance, France, Future Tech, Humor, Poet, Sound

Sur France Culture (avant que ça ne disparraisse). 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...

Sotigui Kouyaté (1936 – 2010)

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Afri, Care, Eco, Ego, Film, France, Human Rights, Music, Native, Poet, Politics, Racism, Theater

Peter Brook writes: Sotigui was, for all of us who knew him, who worked with him and who became close to him, an absolutely unique person, incomparable with anybody of the past or present, in the same way that Shakespeare and Mozart were their own individual human...

A Freethinkers’ Harvest/Récolte des Libres Penseurs/Raccolta dei Liberi Pensatori

by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2011 | Books, Care, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, KeyText, Politics, Quotes, Teach, Time, Wars, Women

Panarchy.Org with an excerpt of G. B. Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists: THE GOLDEN RULE Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. …The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. IDOLATRY The art of...

Les Assis by/par Rimbaud by/par Ferré

by Pier Marton | Apr 7, 2011 | Care, Death, Ego, France, Poet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gARP3dQhWp4 Noirs de loupes, grêlés, les yeux cerclés de bagues Vertes, leurs doigts boulus crispés à leurs fémurs, Le sinciput plaqué de hargnosités vagues Comme les floraisons lépreuses des vieux murs ; Ils ont greffé dans des amours...

Home (the movie/le film)

by Pier Marton | Mar 31, 2011 | Afri, Art, Asia, Books, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Galleries, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, KeyFilm, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Native, Now, Photo, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

Yann Arthus-Bertrand & the film’s website. Altitude, the photo agency for aerial photography. ActionCarbone to change some of the issues at stake and Good Planet, another similar site of his. http://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU En Français: Click to email a link to a...

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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