of gestures in which a teleological reading of the structure of the universe explodes to life, precisely, as a “semantic order,” as if the “meaning of Being,” or the structures of ontology itself, could be read in the forceful imperative of a speech performance like “let there be light!” 11 The narrative loop here is one in which power is produced immanently or retroactively in the spectacular doubling or affirmation of power itself. Power exists only in its subjective affirmation, a purely superficial or surfacy phenomenological space that is only “caused” by power after the excessive fact of its affirmation, a story that increasingly began to dominate Althusser’s rewiring of Marxist traditions of ideology.