1) In the article about Sophie Calle's projects called "The Following" and "The Big Sleep", the author states that people feel more obliged to instinctively yield to the unknown and that people opt to respond to a challenge instead of a request. Why do you think this is so? Do you have an experience that supports or refutes this assertion?
2) After the author provides a real life childhood example of hide 'n seek, he argues that "it's better not to know how to play too well, it's better to know how to let others unmask you and endure the rule of the game." Can you think of any present day adult situations that illuminate this assertion? Do you think the author would support the saying that "Ignorance is bliss"? Or is he simply establishing the ambiguity of human vulnerabilities?
3) In Signal to Noise By Ina Blom, the author states that chance is seen as irrational because of its unstable link to its effect. Jacques Lacan saw cause as inaccessibility of desire, which makes reality a disconnect between what we want and what actually is. Do you think this supports the idea that expectations rarely measure up to reality? Is this idea pessimistic or realistic?
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