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Arman & Radigue Dynamite

by Pier Marton | May 8, 2011 | Art, Asia, Dance, Death, France, Galleries, Idées, Music, Poet, Politics, Shoah, Sound, Women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBH9KvnLbFI Arman’s older website and a newer one. and a portrait of Eliane Radigue through the Institute for Media Archeology. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new...

Lanzmann en Israel

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Doc, Film, History, Human Rights, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah

Il cite de nouveau Flaubert dans Madame Bovary ‘L’oblique génuflexion des dévots pressés’. Un plus loin: “les Américains qui sont idiots et qui ont leur raison pour l’être” – touché! Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on...

The Thinking Person’s Guide to the Holocaust

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars

A Way To Begin Following that article, I have added a few of my recommendations. It is very good to have Améry, along with Shoah by Lanzmann, and Primo Levi. They know that one CANNOT understand anything about the Shoah, the prerequisite for any “inquiry.” I would add...

Never Again – Not Only For Jews But For Everyone!

by Pier Marton | May 2, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Yom HaShoah Haaretz Editorial =================== Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day, which is being marked today, is above all a day of remembrance. Today is the day on which the Holocaust is to be recalled, and on which the memory of those who perished and the...

Élet Menete 2011

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Women

Több ezren vonultak az Élet Menetén 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...

Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. Click to email a link to a...

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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