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17. Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact, trans. Chris Turner (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005), 103.

18. To rediscover reading as the point of emergence—negotiation, space—between the text and the reader. To think the punctum—a point, stop, break, puncture, prick—of the flattened page, the punctum that lets the text be a text, that allows reading to continue. It is Roland Barthes who never lets us forget that it is punctuation that allows the sentence to stop, pause, but never to settle, as it is punctuation that also breaks, punctures; at best, it is a momentary rest. Barthes' meditation on punctuation and the punctum can be found in many places, one of which is Camera Lucida (1980).

19. Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil, 104.