ABSTRACT
The emergence of a regionalized epistemology, the dysfunctioning of the grand explicating metanarratives, and the effectiveness of feminist appeals to personal experience are among the trends encouraging the development of mystory-a term designating the nexus of history, politics, language, thought, and technology in the last decade of this millenium.1 The mystorical approach to a topic such as "the future of theory" involves a reworking of certain ancient problems-the relation of the particular and the general, the reality of change, the invention of the "subject," to name a few. Whether ancient or modern, it is not always easy to recognize the peculiar configuration of possibility in one's own moment, hence the use of a neologism to name this movement, or this "mythical concept" (to use Roland Barthes's term for that historical, unstable dimension of myth).
