The second reality has the feature of making illusion complete. What kind of illusion? The illusion we have, that there is no need for action to protect the first reality from its annihilation. The annihilation of the first reality is natural, the illusion says, because it will be replaced by total virtual reality. I-generation is the unconscious constructor and instrument of this nightmare.

Synthetic biology the applied science for creating new biological sub-systems and organisms more and more gets into focus of the public, especially now as US researcher Craig Venter could successfully create a bacterium which has fully artificial genetic codes. "Creating life" now is becoming actual reality. In the articles collected here French scientists are debating the possible use and threats of synthetic biology.

Postmodernism as an epistemological project still reproduces a particular form of coloniality. A decolonial perspective requires a broader canon of thought that would require taking seriously the epistemic insights of critical thinkers from the global South. How can a "critical border thinking" that envisages a "transmodern world" moves us beyond Eurocentrism?

As it also happened at their time, many would like to present Beatles as a group of kindly smiling lads, maybe feather-brained but definitely nice. Just the opposite, this music, including its cultural and social context, is – sometimes indirectly but often openly – about rebellion and protest or even more about creating a better world full of love, not hungry for money and missing exploitation.