is the device to con ppl into thinking you and your production is worth more than cirjerk

Just when you thought all was lost, like harry potter and some mystical shit, you find a book given to you by some world of wizardi--poetry professor, same thing, and in it you read about theory as a device, and you are like, "oh, snap! this is better than when that off reader convinced you that Fredmoten was writing 'the shit' instead of 'the shipped'...both are apt.