Flipping the Pages of Tomorrow: The Future “Books”

by Pier Marton | Jan 23, 2012 | Books, Ego, France, Future Tech, Humor, Ideas, Idées, iOS, Mac, Now, Quotes, Spectacle, Tech, Time | 2 comments

To paraphrase Eco: a newer technology does not replace an older one, they co-exist… but at first it mimics the old one: photographs that look like paintings, filmed theater, etc…
It takes time to find your own identity. “Smart phones” – we can’t name what we use, but that is how it should be.

Même la France, au bout d’un certain nombre d’années, devrait changer de nom, par honnêteté, pour se dégager du mythe “France”/Even France, after a certain number of years, should change its name to be honest, to escape the myth “France.” Henri Michaux
Je suis à mon plus vivant quand je suis sans mot/I am most alive when I can’t use words. P.M.

2 Comments

karenmargolis on January 23, 2012 at 1:53 pm

Wonderful quote from Michaux – such an inspired poet.
- Pier Marton on January 23, 2012 at 3:28 pm
  
  Michaux, like Artaud and Rimbaud, is one those that said all of his life: “beyond!” – I have a couple more Michaux entries on my blog. Be well, K.

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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