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Isaac Deutscher & The Non-Jewish Jew/Le Juif Non-Juif/Der Nichtjüdischer Jude/El non-judío Judío/A Nem-Zsidó Zsidó

by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Antisemitism, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes, Shoah

Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and...

Primo Levi on Truth(s) & Leadership

by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah

(from “Why Auschwitz” – in an “auto-interview”) It is the duty of everyone to meditate on what happened. Everybody must know or remember that Hitler and Mussolini, when they spoke in public, were believed, admired, adored like gods. They were “charismatic leaders”;...

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2012 | Afri, Archi, Art, Books, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Highlights, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars, Women

You may also want to check out a CBC interview around his Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle From Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt From the Introduction: AMONG INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS, THE UNITED STATES HAS THE: • highest poverty...

Ways of Seeing: the Iconoclast John Berger at the Confluence of Art & Commerce

by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2012 | Art, Highlights, History, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, KeyText, Media, Politics, Teach, Women

The 1972 classic BBC four hour series – 40 years ago, still with a punch – Impossible to purchase, except in book form which is like trying to ingest the freeze-dried ingredients for a soup… This is a sound and visual event, a must see for anyone wanting to see behind...

Don van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart 1941-2010

by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2012 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Highlights, Humor, Music, Poet, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Sound, Theater, Women

A few quotes: I don’t think there’s any way you can *know* music. The minute you *know* it, you stop playing, and the minute a person stops playing, the music isn’t playing anymore. I don’t want to sell my music. I’d like to give it away because where I got it, you...

Citations de Picasso

by Pier Marton | Mar 5, 2012 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Photo, Quotes

Si l’on sait exactement ce qu’on va faire, à quoi bon le faire ? Le métier, c’est ce qui ne s’apprend pas. Les autres parlent, moi je travaille. C’est dangereux le succès. On commence à se copier soi-même et se copier soi-même est plus dangereux que de copier les...

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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