Contents -- A "Materiality without Matter"? -- I. Ideologies of/and the Aesthetic -- "As the Poets Do It": On the Material Sublime -- Art and Ideology: Althusser and de Man -- Algebra and Allegory: Nonclassical Epistemology, Quantum Theory, and the Work of Paul de Man -- II. Deadly Apollo: "Phenomenality," Agency, the Sensorium -- Phenomenality and Materiality in Cézanne -- Political Thrillers: Hitchcock, de Man, and Secret Agency in the "Aesthetic State" -- Resistance in Theory -- III. Re-Marking "de Man" -- Paul de Man as Allergen -- Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law -- IV. The Mnemopolitical Event -- The Politics of Rhetoric -- How Can I Deny That These Hands and This Body Are Mine? -- V. Materiality without Matter -- Typewriter Ribbon: Limited Ink (2) ("within such limits") -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.