7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translator ’s Preface: Dead Man Thinking vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Submedial Space
6. 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs 19
7. 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception 32
8. 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt 41
9. 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity 49
10. 5. The Gaze of the Other 62
11. 6. The Medium Becomes the Message 69
12. 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial 80
13. II. The Economy of Suspicion
14. 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water 93
15. 9. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Mana ; or, the Floating Signifi er 106
16. 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun 115
17. 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters 129
18. 12. Jean-François Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime 148
19. 13. The Time of Signs 161
20. 14. Suspicion Is the Medium 173
21. Notes 181
22. Index 193