Marc Crépon
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Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it's classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal-by peoples across...
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Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.
Within the violence our societies must confront today exists a dimension proper to language. Anyone who has been through the educational system, for example, recognizes how language not only shapes and models us, but also imposes itself upon us. During the twentieth century, this system revealed how language can condemn one to a certain death. In The Vocation...
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"Sería desastroso, en efecto, que la pandemia pase, sin haber revelado las conciencias suficientemente para que recuerden que la urgencia sanitaria no es la última palabra de la crisis. Una vez salidos de los combates dados día a día para salvar vidas, son otras las luchas futuras las que será necesario saber inventar, es otro mundo el que será necesario imaginar y encontrar los medios de imponer", señala Marc Crépon en Tiempos difíciles:...
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Mahatma Gandhi was an international icon, a non-violent leader, and symbol of India's independence. This documentary explores how one man personified his struggle and used his image as a non-violent weapon during a worldwide communications battle in India, Europe, and the US. The film further questions what remains of the myth, its failures, and what it still inspires.
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