Focusing not on the virtues but on the vices of communication; examining, through associated pathologies – and social pathologies especially – not the ways and means of communication, but the deviations that may stem in part from communication; considering communication not as a way of preventing or reducing of these pathologies but as a possible vector of a circular process of aggravation: these, briefly, are the outlines of this issue of Questions de communication. Quite a task: a few artic...