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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...

The Novelist Stefan Merrill Block Has Taken Off!

by Pier Marton | Sep 6, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Dance, Death, Health, History, Mystery, Time

His first book, “The Story of Forgetting,” was translated into 12 languages. His second novel, “Storm at the Door,” is taking off too: One of the bravest and the most beautiful books I have ever read. Karen Russell in the NY Times. Click to email a link to a friend...

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...

’11 SLIFF BUZZ: Restoration – Boker Tov Adon Figelman ???? ??? ???? ??????

by Pier Marton | Sep 4, 2011 | Art, Death, Film, Health, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Review, STL, Theater

A short review: Restoration “Cracks let the light in” says Leonard Cohen; director Yossi/Joseph Madmony gambled on Sasson Gabay, the venerable Israeli actor, to trust the eloquence of his face to carry that light, and he won! A great many subtleties anchor the main...

’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,...

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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