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Online Mindfulness Bell

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2011 | Asia, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Ideas, Music, Poet, Site, Sound, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Inspired by the teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh. The option to stop whatever one does to check how anchored one is. Stop to consciously breathe in and out three times with the sound of the bell. With time interval, exact time, or random interval options. Email a link to a...

Kafka on Suicide and on Being Stabbed

by Pier Marton | Apr 11, 2011 | Books, Death, Ego, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Poet, Quotes

Kafka in 1904: I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? …we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us...

Les Assis by/par Rimbaud by/par Ferré

by Pier Marton | Apr 7, 2011 | Care, Death, Ego, France, Poet

Noirs de loupes, grêlés, les yeux cerclés de bagues Vertes, leurs doigts boulus crispés à leurs fémurs, Le sinciput plaqué de hargnosités vagues Comme les floraisons lépreuses des vieux murs ; Ils ont greffé dans des amours épileptiques Leur fantasque ossature aux...

To All Mothers!

by Pier Marton | Apr 1, 2011 | Asia, Care, Death, Music, Poet, Women

Djivan Gasparyan, the great duduk player. This is his website! Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Vaneigem: Desire everything, expect nothing.

by Pier Marton | Mar 23, 2011 | Books, Eco, France, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Poet, Politics, Quotes

From e-flux & Hans Ulrich Obrist. Proust Questionnaire, answered by Raoul Vaneigem What is your main personality trait? Laziness. What quality do you appreciate most in a man? Generosity coupled with human awareness of life. What quality do you appreciate most in...

Keats: “every thing and nothing”

by Pier Marton | Mar 22, 2011 | Art, Dance, Death, Ego, Ideas, KeyText, Poet

From Keats’ complete letter to Richard Woodhouse on October 27, 1818: A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity—he is continually in for—and filling some other Body—The Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are...

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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