In theory ...

... colleges and universities ought to be preserving our literary heritage and showing students how to derive maximum benefit therefrom. But in practice Theory has displaced literature.

Question : If "texts are radically indeterminate and inevitably self-subverting," if "no author can successfully inscribe his or her intention in a text or convey meaning through literature," then why bother writing? If the aforementioned premises are correct, then the presumed aim of a text -- to communicate something -- is by definition impossible to reach. This would of course apply to texts expounding theory also.