8. Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World: Hourya Bentouhami

The Language of the Future
Prof. Hourya Bentouhami (Toulouse)

In what language can we say, write and think about the future of criticism: what does critical philosophy make of the future? In what way can the very idea of the future be wrested from its future empiricity? Teresa de Lauretis tells us: “I have not been and am not interested in the empirical future, which will happen anyway, even for those of us who call for a ‘no future’, if such a thing were possible. The future that interests me is precisely the future that is invoked, that is, the idea, the trope of the future, or, to paraphrase Freud, the illusion of a future. In this way, I will interrogate the knot that exists in philosophical language and writing between, on the one hand, the future as a linear, empirical temporality, and on the other, social critique as a power of negation and imagination drawing on new modalities of being, unexpected forms of life and language.

About the speaker

Hourya Bentouhami is a French-Moroccan Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her work on political philosophy and phenomenology focuses on the sensorial dynamics of racialization and gender assignment and on forms of economic dispossession as well as on the ways of disobeying them to create new forms of seeing and feeling in a livable world.

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