A series of essays compose this groundbreaking book that illuminates a certain end of our era, but also the new opening that calls us, questioning the major transformations of the world. First and foremost, there is the question of the long road that led from archaic mythology to hypermodern technology. The future poses a problem: whether the human being is destined to undergo a change. Then comes the adventure of scientific technique: thus the question of the end of art is raised, in all its poetic dimension.