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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...

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...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction): (YOU WILL) KNOW...

George Carlin: 1937-2008

by Pier Marton | Aug 21, 2011 | Death, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater, Wars

http://youtu.be/UzmD9GEpdTw http://youtu.be/SurCWa8B8YU And some previous highlights on powerful figures. 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...

David Servan-Schreiber: 1961-2011

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, Eco, Food, France, Health, Ideas, Idées

His last text/book: “We Can Tell Each Other Goodbye Several Times.” The first question raised by my state of health: “does my relapse damages the credibility of the anticancer method?“, I answer categorically not. Firstly because I am not a scientific experiment to me...

Use Your Head & Keep your Life & your Head = Helmets + Visibility

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Care, Death, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Objects, Sci/Nat, Sights, Travel

Having had many close call encounters both on a bicycle and in a car, I am NOT afraid to look like a Xmas tree while biking. Having met someone with a hole in his head and his speech impaired because, the one day his car was in the garage, he rode to work on his bike...

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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