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Carnage – Polanski’s Film

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Review, Shoah, Spectacle, STL, Theater, Wars, Women

At The Tivoli Theater in St. Louis for one more week… My review: “Civilization is what makes you sick.” – Paul Gauguin Some people profess to teach the humanities, others purport to have become specialists in civility, teaching and publishing on the topic, and one...

Greti Herman does what she can…

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush… … Greti dashed across the street… A half-hour...

Leni Riefenstahl – “Pretty as a Swastika”

by Pier Marton | Feb 2, 2012 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Books, Cam, Death, Doc, Jewish, Magyar, Native, Photo, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women

New Yorker Magazine: Where There’s a Will – The rise of Leni Riefenstahl by Judith Thurman … Riefenstahl appeals to her friend and admirer Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer and the most fanatic anti-Semite in a crowded field (he was hanged for his war crimes...

Alexis Weissenberg: 1929-2012

by Pier Marton | Jan 26, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Jewish, Juif, Music, Poet, Racism, Shoah, Theater, Wars

Wikipedia: Born into a Jewish family in Bulgaria, Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov, a Bulgarian composer. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. In 1941, he and his mother tried to escape from...

Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today

by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, Shoah, STL, Time, Wars, Women

The outstanding film that was produced in 1948 by Stuart Schulberg (with Pare Lorentz) yet never screened in the US until NOW! A time to remember Whitney Harris’s work (cf. below). My review: TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART (and eyes/ears) so that today may have a...

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: • The essence...

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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