University, apparatus and manifestos

Abstract

This article seeks to describe the university, firstly, as an "ideological apparatus" as established by the French philosopher Louis Althusser. Secondly, to argue that the transformations to this university apparatus do not come from within the apparatus itself but from its margins. In this last sense, and thirdly, I propose the texts Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway as "manifestos" which uncover the androcentric logic that animates the university and interrupts its functionality as an ideological apparatus. Mainly, it is this scriptural margin of feminism as an interruption of the “university apparatus” what will be addressed in this article.