DeMan’s textual metaphor theory structurally parallels Marx’s value-form dialectic.

Evidence

Meanwhile, if there is any plausibility in my suggestion that DeMan’s exploration of the consequences of the inaugural metaphorical moment has deeper affinities with Marx’s staging of the emergence of value, then this affinity also opens up a possible relationship between the former’s notions of textuality and those more postmodern concerns with the peculiar dynamics of media signification that at first seem so distant from him. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 521

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is the DeMan-Marx affinity real or a trans-coding convenience? It bears on whether the ‘cultural dominant’ thesis has genuine explanatory power.
• XREF: connects to: The form-content dialectic succeeds for Marx precisely because it is aesthetic in origin — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 671