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 lack of time and its specters

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