The stars that compose Blanqui’s universe exist only because of an infinite process of repetition and reproduction. There is nothing in this universe—no star, comet, meteorite, person, thing, or event—that does not begin in this movement of eternal reproduction. This is why we can say that the universe in its entirety works like a gigantic photographic machine. — Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997): 33.