This collection of essays by international scholars from various disciplines addressed the theme of technological pessimism-the conviction that technology has given us the means not to achieve unlimited progress but to destroy ourselves and our most cherished values.[...]
In our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires. Hence the pressing question facing contemporary democracies is how to privilege the performance of political fictions that promote peace and welfare rather than violence a[...]