Theoretical Effects

Theory rose in the academy when the university began to throw its doors open to all sorts of historical subjectivities previously barred from its halls. heory has functioned as both the pretext for this opening and a surveilling device of the entrance of the new subjects. Perhaps, it is owing to this dual work that theory, although synonymous with the self-critique of privilege and the consequent disbanding ofthe unified literary canon, and despite its fortune, has not yet managed to dispel the suspicion of a phylogenetic bond ofword and blood. According to this suspicion, linguistic access (linguistic subjectivity) flows from socially inflected symbolic access.