SENSA Lab, and Department of Film and Screen Media - sponsored by ERI

Prof Denis Bertrand (Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis University)

Monday 24 April 2023, 5.00–7.00 p.m.

Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B, UCC Campus

https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/sensa/

We will start from two cases: the first concerning Greta Thunberg, examining the way she embodies the “future perfect” tense (futur antérieur), becoming its mythical figure (she is already a victim of what “will have happened” by the time the living conditions on earth deteriorate); and the second case, concerning the consumption of meat, which we could thematise as: "Will we have become cannibals?”

Starting from an analysis of the future perfect, by showing its significance and relevance, I will try to unfold its political impacts, "politically" (politiquement) so to speak, as Bruno Latour (2015) would have it. We will thus connect this semiotic analysis of the political horizon of the emergency today, to linguistics, anthropology and ecology.