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DISTANT SUFFERING

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distant suffering V | fading cloud dirt from the studio mixed with one drop of East_Indian Ink pro liter water on Simili Japon, 225 grs, 64 x 48 cm.

content distant suffering #1 | SYRIAN SKIES [ 1,000 DAYS ] distant suffering #2 | anatomy of a cloud distant suffering #4 | documentation of a cloud distant suffering #7| i.d. of a shared cloud

I think the kids are in trouble Do not know what all the troubles are for The National - Conversation 16 We often saw dead people from our school windows.

After a while we got used to it.

Aleppo, 05-10-‘13, 'Anan, 6 years old

The book Distant Suffering, Morality, Media and Politics examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suffering 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, he examines three rhetorical ‘topics’ available for the expression of the spectator’s response to suffering and which have existed since pity became central to politics at the end of the eighteenth century: the topic of denunciation, the topic of sentiment and the aesthetic 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.

distant suffering #1 | SYRIAN SKIES [ 1,000 DAYS ]

distant suffering #1 | SYRIAN SKIES [ 1,000 DAYS ] Sources of the complete work Images published in De Volkskrant Province of Idlib, August 30 2013 Binnish, Idlib, September 5 2013 Damascus, July 30 2013 Daraya, January 16 2013 Daraya, October 15 2013 Ariha, September 7 2013 Daraa, August 27 2013 Damascus, February 21 2013 Damascus, December 22 Ma’arrat al-Numan, November 15 2013 Damascus, April 302013 Yabroud, May 17 2013 Aleppo, December 9 2013 Aleppo. December 21 2013 Saraqeb, September 4 2013

distant suffering #2 | anatomy of a cloud (Gaza 03-08-2014) exhibition format: 5 x [82,2 x 12,8 cm.] colourprint on Hahnem端le German Etching 310 grs. mounted on 10 mm. dibond print: Pro-Grafici, Goes

distant suffering #4 | documentation of a cloud march 2015 the Syrian town Kobane / Ain al-Arab, seen from the south-east side of the Turkish village Mursitpinar / Mürşitpınar [ 36° 54' 14" north, 38° 20' 52" east ] in the Sanliurfa region monday, october 20 2014

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Photo credits Lefteris Pitarakis | AP Photo Bulent Kilic | AFP Photo Lefteris Pitarakis | AP Photo Gokhan Sahin | Getty Images Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters

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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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DISTANT SUFFERING

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