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The Language of Criticism: How to Speak Difference?

In one of the most personal passages of his book The Unmodern Crisis of the Modern University, Willy Thayer asks himself about “the poetic difficulty of the language of criticism”: How does one criticize the university in a language that can make itself noticed, a language that is perceptible and recognizable but, at the same time, is sufficiently unfamiliar and strange (disturbingly other) that it disconcerts the formality of speech and thought instituted by academic legality? That “lexical question concerning how and in what language can you write (not university-like) from the university” generates a tension that divides the book between the restless search for a critical alterity that is not reducible to the standardization of a functionary or mercantile language, and the presentiment that the search for alterity—in modes of existence, thought, or writing—is destined to a failure that has been meticulously planned by the system of capitalist instrumentalization, which has pondered each trick and stratagem of its plan of abstraction and reduction of difference.