I suggest that conventions occur first as anticonventions or antisigns … that is, to the extent that something is a convention it is also a sign, meaning that it has taken its place as one of the efficient and invisible chips in the informational circuitry. But how did it get there in the first place if not as an attempt to break into the circuit, to pester the circuit with nuance, to wound it with the resistance of its presence? In other words, it began as an image in which the known world was, in some sense, being recreated or revised out of its primal linguistic matter. In some such way all images, to one degree or other, erupt delightfully and claim their presence as a site of disclosure, putting us “somewhere else than we usually tend to be.” Without this character as site, there is no delight, only the passage of information.