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Salim Halali: 1920-2005

by Pier Marton | Mar 31, 2012 | Antisemitism, Film, France, Hispanic, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Music, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars

Praised by Oum Kalthoum and saved by Si Kaddour Benghabrit who headed the Paris Mosque during WWII. The war story is the subject of Free Men/Les Hommes Libres, a film by Ismaël Ferroukhi. with a review of that film by Ofer Aderet |March 2012 (in Haaretz): The Great...

Gloria Steinem Supports Obama (+ More)

by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Care, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, iOS, iPhone, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Wars, Women

From the Obama YouTube Channel which includes “The Road We’ve Traveled” + Indecision Forever an iOS App from Comedy Central 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...

Toulouse/Palestine (Mohamed Merah)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Health, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

Nous étions profondément choqués d’entendre dire que cet homme fou, ce criminel, prétend qu’il l’avait fait pour venger les enfants… prétendre qu’assassiner des enfants, n’importe quels enfants, des enfants français, des enfants israéliens, serait une vengeance pour...

Alexander Sokurov

by Pier Marton | Mar 12, 2012 | Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Media, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Shoah, Sounds, Time, Wars, Women

Sokurov’s Website- Sokurov/English Extraits d’une interview sur Hors-Champs: (English translation may appear some day…) Il n’y a rien dans un paysage, même pas de beauté. Elle existe dans nous… La nature vit sa vie, un homme vit sa vie. L’homme déifie la nature quand...

(some of) the Baron Cohen Gene(ous)

by Pier Marton | Mar 10, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Media, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Wars

“Zero Degrees of Empathy” by Dr. Simon Bar Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University’s Autism Research Centre. “The role of art...

To Forget Is To Kill Twice. Pier Marton

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Art, Death, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Photo, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Pier Marton on the Resistance & the Shoah “My parents’ generation will slowly disappear,” says Marton, “but the energy that created the Holocaust is still there. To forget is to kill twice.” Pier Marton in Savannah Morning News. Click to email a link to a friend...

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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