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Promises of Presence

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My review of Ike Kamphof’s “Webcams to Save Nature: Online Space as Affective and Ethical Space” focuses on the question how the engagement of the spectator of the described websites is temporally structured and how the discrepancy between the instantaneity of affective response and the duration of moral engagement is solved. I propose to draw on Alexander Nehamas’ philosophy of beauty as an in-between, bringing affect and ethics closer together.

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  • Kamphof I. (2011) Webcams to Save Nature: Online space as affective and ethical space. Foundations of Science, 16(2–3): 259–274

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  • Nehamas Alexander (2007) Only a promise of happiness. The place of beauty in a world of art. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, J. J. Cremerplein 46-HS, 1054 TL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Renée van de Vall

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van de Vall, R. Promises of Presence. Found Sci 18, 169–172 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9265-4

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