ABSTRACT
GB Banal strategy and fatal strategy: what is the difference between them? Yes, this detour, this opposition is a little facile. As soon as one looks at it it proves to be much more complex. Banality-that of the masses, of silent majorities-all that is our ambience…. For me it is however a fatal strategy: something responds of its own accord, something from which it is impossible to escape, but which you cannot decipher either, an immanent type of fatality…. It is there at the heart of the system, at a strategic point in the system, at its point of inertia, at its blind spot. That is my definition (there isn’t any other) of the fatal. Now, mass behaviour, mass art, Beaubourg, all that… that’s the extreme point of the banal, the apogee of the banal. I had a good look at all that. Let us say that that is the kind of fatality which comes from systems of simulations and which produces this mass object.
