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Ways of Seeing: the Iconoclast John Berger at the Confluence of Art & Commerce
The 1972 classic BBC four hour series
- 40 years ago, still with a punch -
Impossible to purchase, except in book form which is like trying to ingest the freeze-dried ingredients for a soup…
This is a sound and visual event, a must see for anyone wanting to see behind the so-called high and low culture surrounding us.
See them all!
Dessert: Berger at 85 around his latest book, “Bento’s Sketchbook” (Spinoza’s lost drawings).
Footnote: DNA Methylation, Cancer and the Cedars’ Deep Connection
Prof. Haim/Howard Cedar and his son, Yossef/Joseph Cedar, the filmmaker (by Nir Hasson in Haaretz)
“There’s no connection between the father and the son in ‘Footnote’ and the relationship between us. I think there’s something special in our relationship. Each of us talks to the other about his field, but at a basic level. So basic that what I do connects with what Joseph does. If you’re not thinking about methylization and he’s not thinking about how a character or how the filming will look − in the end there’s a connection. ‘Good’ isn’t the word for it: Ours is a very deep connection.”
Father (Israel/Wolf Prize for biology)
Son (2 Oscar nominated films w. Footnote/best screenplay at Cannes)
The Present/Future of Teaching is Online and Free (01): The Khan Academy
Salman Khan on TED
The Khan Academy YouTube Channel
Learn almost anything FOR FREE
THE KHAN ACADEMY WEBSITE
with a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 315 practice exercises…
129,520,088 lessons delivered!
“7 Steps to Incredible Personal Productivity”
Let’s start with the finale!
From Inc.: “Jeff Haden learned much of what he knows about business and technology as he worked his way up in the manufacturing industry from forklift driver to manager of a 250-employee book plant. Everything else he picks up from ghostwriting books for some of the smartest innovators and leaders he knows in business. He has written more than 30 non-fiction books, including four Business and Investing titles that reached #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list. He’d tell you which ones, but then he’d have to kill you.”
on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]
[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later), the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]
Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
- Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
- La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
I had thought of stopping this…
I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner - and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.
I had thought of stopping this…
Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.
I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:
Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”
Being Pro-Israel can be Progressive!
Recently an apparently well-known British blogger featured on Democracy Now! was denouncing some British politicians for being “Pro-Israel” and from my progressive perspective I was shocked.
I shouldn’t have been…
Holocaust/Shoah... everything gets to be stolen/co-opted! And tragically simplified.
Too many times I have been involved in discussions with individuals who claim to be on the side of “people.” Yet apparently they cannot understand that Jews, besides their historical tie to the land (Why do Jews keep saying “Next Year in Jerusalem”?), have established Israel as the very kind of national liberation struggle that they would “normally” defend.
I know that I open myself to attacks but I will try to interpret their “reasons:”
- They think the Shoah, yes more than 60 years ago, along with two milleniums of anti-Semitism (expulsions/mass killings/pogroms) – which they may be unaware of – that history is not worth dealing with.
- They think that a country that is run by right-wing politicians is a country that has no right to exist or that because they are Arab Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians cannot co-exist…
It may be useful to remember for everyone – considering how Jews (like the endangered species that they have been and continue to be) are scared of criticizing Israel, that the famous Schurz complete saying goes this way: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
I invite you to read Haaretz (the paper – online too), Martin Buber, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Avraham Burg, Yesh G’Vul/Yesh Gvul/There is Limit, Peace Now/Shalom Achshav, Combatants for Peace, JStreet, The New Israel Fund… to name a few. The list goes on and on! - They carry some (unconscious?) alienation towards Jews possibly because they have not won such a friend’s confidence.
- They believe their way is the way (and ignore “a Jewish perspective” – something that is by definition [two Jews/three opinions] multifaceted) and possibly don’t understand how they carry anti-Semitic tendencies.
My blog has featured many groups working on peace between Palestinians and Jews (like some of those named above). Please use its search engine (you can also use the tag A-Semitism on the right of this blog).
I would also suggest looking at various posts I have done including Herbert Pagani, Philippe Clay, Gainsbourg (some that come to my mind at this time).
Jews actually have a strong tradition of fighting for the underdog – but who fights for them?
They are too easily denounced as capitalists (“those” Wall Street type) or radicals (“those” famous feminists/Communists/Socialists).
They are an easy target, and for those who seek easy solutions to what they perceive as THE problem, so it seems, an eternal scapegoat.
Tout Michaux – All of Michaux
Michaux par Brassai
En Français: 3 Volumes dans La Pléiade (Eds. Raymond Bellour & Ysé Tran)
«S’il veut se coucher lui-même sur le papier, et non une œuvre, et non une île de soi-même, il tranche dans sa chair et voilà…» écrivait emblématiquement Michaux dès 1926.
(Writing in 1926 “If one wants to lie down on paper not to create a work, and not an island of oneself, one needs to cut into one’s flesh, and there it is…).
Un documentaire de souvenirs sur le web par Romain Verger: La Vie Double
In English: Darkness Moves
