Guest Editor's Preface: "Tecnomania/tecnofobia"

The title of the collection of essays - "Tecnomanie/tecnofobie" - is a provocation. It may appear “extreme” or a contradiction in terms. On another level, however, there are overtones of an idea, called “technocracy”, a new concept which has begun to surface a lot lately. This idea constitutes an immediate reference both for technomaniacs (or technobsessives) of different social ranks and for more or less declared technophobics.