Text Archives - Pier Marton

The Void and its Pressure

by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Education, Ego, Hispanic, Ideas, NON, Now, Peace, Poet, Site, Spectacle, Text, The Future, Time, Violence, Wars, Women, Words, World, Youth

— January 1st – World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day — El Vacío y su Presión translated into English as The Void and its Pressure ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM Spanish Version & Original Links –> Primera Parte & Segunda Parte El vacío y su presión (I...

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...

Learning Jargonese (Hiding Behind Words)

by Pier Marton | Mar 3, 2012 | Books, Death, Eco, Future Tech, History, Human Rights, Humor, Media, Poet, Politics, Sounds, Teach, Text, Time, Wars

From the Battle of Ideas Conference in 2008 The language of politics today seems to be all hat and no trousers, with politicians muttering about ‘inclusive diversity culture’ and the ‘values vacuum’, or holding forth on ‘sustainable development’, ‘extraordinary...

Apollinaire: À Travers le Temps/Across Time

by Pier Marton | Feb 21, 2012 | Audio, Death, France, Poet, Tech, Text, Time, Travel

Enregistrement/Recording: Apollinaire Lisant son Propre Poème Reading his Own Poem LE PONT MIRABEAU-THE MIRABEAU BRIDGE LE PONT MIRABEAU Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la peine Vienne la...

George Carlin: Clean Language

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Books, Care, Eco, Humor, Ideas, Media, Now, Poet, Politics, Spectacle, Teach, Text

From Brain Droppings by George Carlin The Status Quo Always Sucks Some Favorite Redundancies added bonus exactly right closed fist future potential inner core money-back refund seeing the sights true fact revert back safe haven prior history young children time period...

Some of My Favorite Quotes

by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Poet, Quotes, Software, Sound, Spectacle, Teach, Text, Time, Wars, Women

[UPDATED HERE WITH THE EXTENSIVE SCHOOL OF NO MEDIA COLLECTION] Besides Crane, Eco and quite a few others available on this blog under the “Quotes” category, these are quotes I have used in the past, either on my office door or as part of my signature: • ...

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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