Contents: Barbara A. Biesecker/John Louis Lucaites: Editors' Introduction - Michael Calvin McGee: A Materialist's Conception of Rhetoric - Ronald Walter Greene: Rhetorical Materialism: The Rhetorical Subject and the General Intellect - John M. Sloop: People Shopping - Joan Faber McAlister: Material Aesthetics in Middle America: Simone Weil, the Problem of Roots, and the Pantopic Suburb - Bruce E. Gronbeck: Jacob Riis and the Doubly Material Rhetorics of His Politics - Christian O. Lundberg: On the Materiality of Interpretation - Charles E. Morris III: Hard Evidence: The Vexations of Lincoln's Queer Corpus - Nathan Stormer: Encomium of Helen's Body: A Will to Matter - Kenneth Rufo: Shades of Derrida: Materiality as the Mediation of Différance - Daniel F. Schowalter: Disarticulating American Indianness in the National Museum of the American Indian - Oscar Giner: Portraits of Rebellion: Geronimo's Photograph of 1884 - Dana L. Cloud: The Materialist Dialectic as a Site of Kairos: Theorizing Rhetorical Intervention in Material Social Relations - William C.
Trapani: Materiality's Time: Rethinking the Event from the Derridean esprit d'à-propos .