“The more daily life is eroded, routinized and interactivized, the more we must counter this trend with complex, initiatory sets of rules.
The more reality becomes reconciled with its concept in an objectless generality, the more we must seek out the initiatory rupture and the power of illusion.
If we cannot make the world the object of our desires, we can at least make it the object of a higher convention - which, precisely, eludes our desire.
Any illusion, any initiatory form, involves a severe rule.
Any created object, visual or analytic, conceptual or photographic, has to condense all the dimensions of the game into a single one: the allegorical, the representative (mimicry), the agonal (agon), the random (alea) and the vertiginous (ilinx).
Recomposing the spectrum.
A work, an object, a piece of architecture, a photograph, but equally a crime or an event, must: be the allegory of something, be a challenge to someone, bring chance into play and produce vertigo.”
- Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil