by Pier Marton | Oct 30, 2010 | Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Politics, Sci/Nat, Wars
by Doisneau from PAROLES – – translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti – (Français en dessous) SONG IN THE BLOOD (sung by Joan Baez) there are great puddles of blood on the world where is it all going? all this spilled blood? is it the earth that drinks it...
by Pier Marton | Aug 12, 2010 | Art, Books, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, History, Human Rights, KeyText, Politics, Racism, Site, Spectacle, Wars
A hero of mine, showing the true face of war (what no army ever wants you to consider, and no government/media ever truly acknowledges). Writing, after WWI, a book against war in four languages to prevent future wars. His museum, not the common war museum, but an...
by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2010 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Books, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Women
“In this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.” And a quote from another text, as excerpted by Peter Fredlake of the USHMM – thank you: “The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Art, Books, Ideas, KeyText, Media, Spectacle
Art is not a mirror to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it. The essential point of epic theater is perhaps that appeals less to the feelings than to the spectator’s reason. — Bertolt Brecht Mass (and most) media seeks a captive audience. You...
by Pier Marton | Jul 27, 2010 | Film, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyText, Media, Politics, Spectacle
Nowadays, perfect cinema – technically and artistically masterful – is almost always reactionary cinema. + Art will not disappear into nothingness; it will disappear into everything. 1966/67 From the key essay, For An Imperfect Cinema....
by Pier Marton | Jul 27, 2010 | Asia, Care, Eco, Ego, Exp, Health, Highlights, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery, Now, Politics
If you are having a difficulty, what you must do is face it. Go into your hut. Shut the doors and windows. Wrap yourself in all the robes you own. Sit there and don’t move and face it. Only then can you overcome it. Thai Buddhist Master, Achaan Chah 1918-1992 Si...