Although one could hardly imagine a topic more far-ranging than Theory, Globalization, and Remains of University, it can be argued that it does not range far enough. Or perhaps ranges too far. For questions suggested by this concatenation of terms cannot be limited to fate or future of theory in whatever will remain of in a globalized world. And yet it is no doubt significant that theory leads parade-significant but also perhaps part of problem. For not just etymology links theory to notions such as detached contemplation, spectatorship, and appropriation through vision. The and practice that have been associated with this term continue, even today, to be indebted to dualist paradigm of an underlying subject-today reformulated as agent or position-confronting and comprehending an ob-ject. And yet, if we are still discussing theory, here and today, it is by virtue of a series of texts that have persistently and powerfully questioned subject-object paradigm that has dominated discourse at least since Descartes, and sought to elaborate alternatives to it. Those alternatives have almost always involved a reflection upon language as medium of a practice that is no longer theoretical in traditional sense, because it no longer works within parameters of subject-object model of cognition and truth. From Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, de Man, and Derrida, subject-object model of cognition has been reinterpreted as an effect of medium of language, a medium that articulates itself through reading, writing, and repetition of texts, understood as concatenations of significance that both respond to and address an irreducible alterity. The has always occupied an equivocal position with respect to this linguistic problematization of subject-object model of cognition and truth: not only because the university as such has never existed-not at least as singular implied by definite article-but even more, because of traditional claim of universities to serve as places where universally valid cognition is both transmitted and produced. In this sense, notions such as the of university simply continue universalizing claims built into universities and promoted by them in order to justify their social existence and dependency. The very notion, or rather figure, implied in notion of globalization tends to strengthen such universalism. Coming after struggle between Communist and Capitalist camps in Cold War, stresses that there is no place left on globe where capitalist system, its values, its power, and way of life can be contested. The globe is all there is, and despite its diversity, it is to have a single future, prolongation of prevailing relation of forces. Globalization is thus successor to notion of One World, itself a recent offshoot of universal history that was Enlightenment heir of Christian eschatological narrative.