On ludic photography

Figures & data

Fig. 1. Honoré Daumier, Nadar: élevant la Photographie. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

Fig. 2. John C. Higgins, Man in Bottle, ca. 1888. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

Fig. 3. Underwood and Underwood, stereograph, He Don’t Like his Pants, 1891. Art Institute of Chicago, public domain

Table

	Cultural Forms Found at the Margins of the Social Order	Institutional Forms Integrated into Social Life	Corruption
AGON (Competition)	Sports	Economic competition Competitive examinations	Violence Will to power Trickery
ALEA (Chance)	Lotteries Casinos Hippodromes Pari-mutuels	Speculation on the stock market	Superstition Astrology, etc.
MIMICRY (Simulation)	Carnival Theater Cinema Hero-worship	Uniforms Ceremonial etiquette	Alienation Split personality
ILINX (Vertigo)	Mountain climbing Skiing Tightrope walking Speed	Professions requiring control of vertigo	Alcoholism and drugs