The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real. - Jean Baudrillard

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.