Roughly, Cusset seems to think of institutionalization as meaning: domestication, too much respect for the past and Big Names, and (in consequence) stasis.
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> The second phenomenon is, of course, academicization itself, the domestication by the university as institution and as power-knowledge of a few texts and authors who had successfully avoided that fate in France (in part because the French academe didn’t *want* them at all).
> Academic domestication has its downfalls, with theory losing its inner political force or its extra-textual inventiveness, but it [...] made for a longer-term influence and explains why these texts and authors are still so present in the US for the new generation today, half a century after their initial entry into the New World.