| Abstrakt: |
In the second half of the XXth century, the semantics of posterity underwent a dramatic transformation, manifest in the notion of future generations. Ushered in by environmentalist discourse, this construct has gained an outstanding presence in the public realm, as much as it implies the idea of the moral responsibility for the long term consequences of our actions, a responsibility focused on our descendants. This new understanding of the future –being this moral point of view a temporal point of view – has inspired a copious literature about its legal and politic implications; although little has been said of the social and cultural circumstances which influenced in its genesis. In this study we turn to science fiction cinema to highlight the making of that category. This genre appears suitable for this research because one of its main themes concerns the relationships between contemporary people and future Humanity. Interpretating the findings of film analysis on a constructivist approach, we reconstruct the intellectual drift of this category since its appearance in the Fifties and how it was shaped by the societal need of an external point of view upon which risk observations can be based. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
