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Author/Speaker｜Alain Brossat
Publication Date｜2020-06
Abstract
Phenotypes are a crucial issue in the realm of cinema and filmmaking. Characters, individuals are more than often surreptitiously assigned to a species (more than a people, a nation, a social group or a community) by their appearance, color of skin, morphology, way of speaking. Phenotypes function as signs which have a global dimension – cultural, moral, political. This « grammar of species», as it is used by filmmakers is all the more performative since its effects on the viewers are direct, immediate and remain unnoticed.
This is the object of this course: see how it works, scan this « grammar » and appraise it philosophically and politically.
Author's Bio:
Alain Brossat, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Paris 8 University. Currently a Researcher and ‘Yu Shan Scholar’ at the International Center for Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University. His research is mainly on contemporary French philosophy, rethinking democracy through the issues of migration and the subjectivities of the subalterns, and the decolonization of culture and knowledge.
