by Pier Marton | Jul 25, 2010 | Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Spectacle
The important thing is the spectacle that you make out of an event in the media, as opposed to the event itself. Taken from their Wikipedia entry. Everything is media, reality is a concept, a consensus. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share...
by Pier Marton | Jul 23, 2010 | Film, France, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Music, Politics, Review, Wars
My blurb: Zany agitation against the merchants of death, including Sarkozy. This particular fever is contagious and may lead one to want to obliterate those that refuse to give into life–> A+ The movie site and this other interview. Email a link to a friend...
by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2010 | Eco, Ideas
A proposed topic for a talk by P.M. As much as we are amazed by how cats get caught up by a dangling string, we humans turn much too easily into hungry consumers of images and sounds. Entire industries bet on that particular “hunger”. Turning us into...
by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2010 | Asia, Books, Ego, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery, Site, Time, Travel
The two main sites: U.G.Krishnamurti.org & U.G.Krishnamurti.net And books (composed primarily of interviews): The Mystique of Enlightenment Courage to Stand Alone Mind is a myth No Way Out Thought is Your Enemy The Sage and the Housewife Stopped in Our Tracks:...
by Pier Marton | Jul 15, 2010 | Antisemitism, Eco, Film, France, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Racism
Where to get hold of it in the U.S. (at Brandeis) A fantastic film about the fragility of culture (and the ways that men want power). An excerpt in French and Portuguese. About the “apostle of the crypto-Jews,” Barros Basto. Email a link to a friend (Opens...
by Pier Marton | Jul 14, 2010 | Art, Highlights, Human Rights, Ideas, Music, Politics, Spectacle
You may already know about Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin… The reluctance of the musician to think outside of his art is an exact description of the special feature of music. Eisler was against the psychological noise-music – a society which...