Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian emigre to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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• Translator's Preface: Dead Man Thinking Introduction I. Submedial Space 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity 5. The Gaze of the Other 6. The Medium Becomes the Message 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial II. The Economy of Suspicion 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water 9. Claude Levi-Strauss: Mana; or, the Floating Signifier 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters 12. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime 13. The Time of Signs 14. Suspicion Is the Medium Notes Index

Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian emigre to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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• Translator's Preface: Dead Man Thinking Introduction I. Submedial Space 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity 5. The Gaze of the Other 6. The Medium Becomes the Message 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial II. The Economy of Suspicion 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water 9. Claude Levi-Strauss: Mana; or, the Floating Signifier 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters 12. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime 13. The Time of Signs 14. Suspicion Is the Medium Notes Index

Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian emigre to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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• Translator's Preface: Dead Man Thinking Introduction I. Submedial Space 1. The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs 2. The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception 3. Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt 4. The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity 5. The Gaze of the Other 6. The Medium Becomes the Message 7. The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial II. The Economy of Suspicion 8. Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange; or, Civilization Under Water 9. Claude Levi-Strauss: Mana; or, the Floating Signifier 10. Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun 11. Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters 12. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Roller Coaster of the Sublime 13. The Time of Signs 14. Suspicion Is the Medium Notes Index