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inspiration Distant Suffering, Morality, Media and Politics | Luc Boltanski

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The book Distant Suffering, Morality, Media and Politics exa-mines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the me-dia. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer can-not act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suf-fering takes place? Luc Boltanski argues that spectators can actively involve themselves and others by talking about what they have seen and how they were affected by it. Developing the idea of the spectator in Adam Smith’s moral theory, in conjunction with the analysis of Hannah Arendt – the dichotomy ‘pity’ vs. ‘empathy’ - he examines three the-oretical ‘topics’ available for the expression of the spectator’s response to suffering and which have existed since pity be-came central to politics at the end of the eighteenth century: the topic of denunciation, the topic of sentiment and the aes-thetic topic. The book concludes with a discussion of a ‘crisis of pity’ in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism and suggests a possible way out of this crisis which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering. In my series ’distant suffering’ I explore, again the relation-ships between ‘image’, ‘media’, ‘politics’, ‘art’ & ‘the safety of the art space’.

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The Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, as seen from the south eastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar / Mürşitpınar [ 36° 54' 14" North, 38° 20' 52" East ] in the Sanliurfa region Monday, October 20, 2014

photo | Bulent Kilic | AFP Photo

photo | Lefteris Pitarakis | AP Photo

foto | Gokhan Sahin | Getty Images

foto | Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach | Reuters

photo | Gokhan Sahin | GettyImages

photo | Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach | Reuters

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Gratefulness Trude Linde | Rolf van der Mije Wendy Speksnijder | Kris van der Hart Jean Lamaison | Katinka Lampe Ralf Westerhof

Gratitude Daphne Bergman, wethouder Gem. Gouda Gerard Kleijn, directeur Museum Gouda Frank Taal, Galerie Frank Taal | Rotterdam

Photo’s Special thanks to Udo Prinsen | Henri Boere

Special thanks to Giel Louws | Willy van Houtum | Dani Ploeger & Jen Gossé, people with reciprocity as the quintessence in their discourse.

For over the past, ever gone by, and over the future, still nonexistent, the present has an overwhelming privilege: that of being real.

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