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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...

’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,...

Liberté, Égalité, Créativité/Liberty, Equality, Creativity

by Pier Marton | Aug 12, 2011 | Art, Dance, Death, Future Tech, Health, Human Rights, Middle-East, Poet, Politics

Pas de liberté sans créativité, pas de créativité sans liberté/No liberty without creativity, no creativity without liberty. Carlo Strenger, in Haaretz, on states that don’t foster that source of wealth. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email...

One (terrible) Element of U.S. Culture – and a Major Export…

by Pier Marton | Aug 11, 2011 | Death, Future Tech, Health, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Native, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Time, Wars

… blending very well with the local cultures. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false...

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa & ????? ?????? The 99 ??? ??

by Pier Marton | Aug 9, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Future Tech, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Teach, TED, Travel, Wars, Women

His website and the 99’s website. Isaac Solotaroff’s documentary that will air on PBS’s Independent Lens on October 13th 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...

Les Étincelles, le Trésor de Jack Lang

by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2011 | Archi, Art, Books, Dance, Eco, France, Future Tech, Galleries, Idées, Music, Native, Podcasts(F), Poet, Politics, Roma, Spectacle, Theater

Sur France Culture, en Podcast – Grand Témoin: Jack Lang (un épisode sur le web) 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