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Facts + Identity = Mess

by Pier Marton | Jul 6, 2014 | Eco, Education, Ideas, Politics, Popular, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Teach, US

[cf. Ajahn Sumedho’s book: Don’t Take Your Life Personally] RELATED TO Pier Marton’s BEYOND BELIEF The New York Times’ THE UPSHOT Debate That Divides When Beliefs and Facts Collide by Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan JULY 5, 2014 Do Americans understand the scientific...

Starling Murmurations/Nuées d’Étourneaux

by Pier Marton | Mar 18, 2014 | Dance, Ideas, Idées, Sci/Nat, Sights, Sound, Wars

Is proper perspective a prerequisite to forgive ugliness? Est-ce que la distance permet de pardonner la laideur? It takes space to get to the harmony of dissonance… L’harmonie de la dissonance demande de l’espace… Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

Puny French Puns – How Much The French Love Words (Les Calembours)

by Pier Marton | Feb 12, 2014 | France, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Spectacle

[On the other hand the U.S. (“AMERICA!”) loves hyperboles] Updated Below with Godard’s Latest “Masterpiece” IF YOU DON’T MOCK THEM, YOU’LL FALL FOR THEM p r e n d r e d e s v e s s i e s p o u r d e s l a n t e r n e s (m a k e a s i l k p u r s e o...

Chaplin’s Ultimate Intelligence

by Pier Marton | Jan 8, 2014 | Antisemitism, Care, Education, Film, Highlights, History, Humor, Ideas, Peace, Politics, Popular, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women, Youth

The Great Dictator’s Final Speech Transcript: I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one...

Why Care About the N.S.A.? The End of Journalism & Privacy

by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2013 | History, Human Rights, Ideas, Now, Politics, Tech, US, Wars, Women, World, Youth

Below, a short video clip by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (“We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists” -& currently on a documentary on Aaron Swartz) answering these typical questions – with Daniel Ellsberg “the infrastructure for a police state,” the...

Banksy’s October New York Guerilla Fiesta

by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Education, Food, Galleries, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Media, Mystery, NON, Objects, Peace, Poet, Politics, Racism, Sights, Spectacle, Teach, Text, Time, US, World, Youth

At the edges of the art world and its fetishisation, and banking on it. BETTER OUT THAN IN October 2013 An Artists Residency on the Streets of New York All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside. Paul Cézanne Excerpts from...

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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