Videology and Utopia

PREFACE

The research described in this book was carried out without special financial support in a university situation that certainly offers little encouragement to the spirit in which we work.

The book is first of all the outcome of the confluence of several currents. It is also the product of a small team. It would not be impossible to follow the usual convention and specify the contribution or the particular orientation of the individual authors, but this would be to falsify a praxis growing out of confrontation and fusion, by reconciling differences in a joint project that is itself in a perpetual process of development.

We cannot, of course, mention by name all those who have helped us in one way or another, but we wish to thank them anonymously ...