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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...