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Marceline Loridan et sa surVIE

by Pier Marton | Apr 30, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Film, France, Human Rights, Juif, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Women

Premier Épisode de Cinq heures d’un Grand Entretien avec Marceline Loridan sur France Inter Et les quatres autres épisodes en Podcast Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Marceline Rosenberg) naît à Epinal le 19 mai 1928 de parents juifs polonais émigrés en France. Arrêtée...

Ways of Seeing: the Iconoclast John Berger at the Confluence of Art & Commerce

by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2012 | Art, Highlights, History, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, KeyText, Media, Politics, Teach, Women

The 1972 classic BBC four hour series – 40 years ago, still with a punch – Impossible to purchase, except in book form which is like trying to ingest the freeze-dried ingredients for a soup… This is a sound and visual event, a must see for anyone wanting to see behind...

ALL TALK

by Pier Marton | Apr 26, 2012 | Future Tech, Ideas, Media, Politics, Software, Spectacle, Tech, Theater, Video, Women

The Human Voice, as Game Changer by Natasha Singer in the New York Times Technology section (with Sherry Turkle giving her perspective). Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare...

Bono’s “A Dog Called Hope” – Written in Israel

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2012 | Health, History, Humor, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Music, Native, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Time, Travel, Wars

From Haaretz U2’s front man Bono surprised Israeli passers-by earlier this month with his sudden visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed published the note Bono left behind at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, which consists of a poem about how “hope is...

Undo The Koch Brothers Before They Undo You

by Pier Marton | Apr 17, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Food, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Theater, Wars

Robert Greenwald’s latest film release: The Koch Brothers Exposed Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Tinghir-Jérusalem: Échos du Mellah/Echoes from the Mellah

by Pier Marton | Apr 16, 2012 | Death, Doc, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Travel

Film Festival Tours: Montréal, NY, Paris, Le Touquet, Agadir, Rabat… Dans HuffPost par Ruth Grosrichard mediterraneus au milieu de la terre/in the middle of the earth Jewish Tinghir Juif Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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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