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Listen To Me Brando

by Pier Marton | Sep 4, 2015 | Genocide, History, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, US, Violence, Wars

Opening at the Plaza Frontenac 11:15 am – 1:40 pm – 4:15 pm – 7 pm – 9:30 pm Listen To Me Brando (trailer, below). For a variety of reasons, I would prefer to keep the focus on Marlon Brando and not on the film. I will let you decide after watching the clips below...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s Masterpieces in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Sep 3, 2015 | Asia, Doc, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, US, Violence

The Films’ Websites The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence. Drafthouse (the distributor) – to find out where else to watch these films The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. — Oscar Wilde I...

Best of Enemies – A Review

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2015 | History, Media, Politics, Review, Site, Spectacle, STL, US

— At Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac — General Showtimes: 11:05 am | 1:15 | 4:15 | 7:20 | 9:45 pm My review: Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting. — Robert Frost It may be odd to like what disturbs us but it is clear that Best of Enemies is meant to...

6 Millions pour la Semaine/for a Week

by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2015 | Antisemitism, Doc, France, French, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Now, Politics, Shoah

Jusqu’au Dernier : La Destruction des Juifs d’Europe – To The Last One: The Destruction of Europe’s Jews – Le Holocauste, une histoire sur les Juifs qui ne concernera que les Juifs? Will the specificity of the killing of Jews remain only a Jewish story? PM – [Utiliser...

-empyre- This Month on “ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance”

by Pier Marton | Nov 3, 2014 | Action, Art, Death, Ego, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Middle-East, Now, Peace, Politics, Security, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, World

For the month of November 2014, I have been invited to be one of a number of guests and will post a statement on this site & with -empyre- by next week. The moderators, Alan Sondheim and Johannes Birringer are organizing the discussion around the topic of “ISIS,...

Contre-histoire de la philosophie: Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas & Günther Anders

by Pier Marton | Sep 24, 2014 | Antisemitism, Books, France, Genocide, History, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Popular, Shoah, Spectacle, Women

ATTENTION: TOUS LES PODCASTS DE L’UNIVERSITÉ POPULAIRE DE CAEN AVEC MICHEL ONFRAY NE SONT EN LIGNE QUE TRÈS PEU DE TEMPS APRÈS LEUR DIFFUSION SUR FRANCE-CULTURE Plus tard ils ne sont disponibles qu’en Coffret CD. Apparemment Onfray aime trop souvent simplifier pour...

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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