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The Unseen Wins (Here Bacteria)

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2014 | Art, Death, Health, Peace, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

“We try to control microbes, but the unseen world remains victorious.” Lydia-Marié Joubert, Cell Sciences Imaging Facility, Stanford University, California “Antimicrobial resistance is a hot topic, especially since it has become clear that our efforts to eradicate...

Holocaust/Shoah: Today & Tomorrow

by Pier Marton | Jan 28, 2014 | Antisemitism, Doc, Education, History, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Shoah, Spectacle, Wars, Women

Ceux qui vivent, vivent des morts/Those that live, live from the dead./Los que viven, viven de los muertos/Azok akik élnek, a hullákból élnek. Antonin Artaud I have a particular relationship to the Shoah that travels with me through time… but what does it mean “to...

Pete Seeger: 1919-2014

by Pier Marton | Jan 28, 2014 | Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Music, Peace, Poet, Politics, Women, World, Youth

Inscribed on his banjo: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” “It is better to have struggled and lost, than never to have struggled at all.” Pete Seeger – The New York Times’ Obituary – The author of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” (with Joe...

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...

Les Nuits de Michaux’s Nights

by Pier Marton | Nov 29, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Mystery, Peace, Photo, Poet, Sci/Nat, Theater, Time, World

Cioran les avait, les insomnies des longues nuits où Lévinas implorait que “son garde” le laisse tranquille… Cioran had them, the long nights of insomnia when Lévinas would beg “his guard” to let him sleep… ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS FURTHER DOWN ON THIS PAGE Trente...

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