What did he mean by this?

No, actually, and that's the point of it. If you actually understand how to read logic it is easy to follow through it step by step.

Right. Although I think Zizek is just particularly bad at this. He just namedrops philosophers without coherently explaining their ideas which is just really poor form.

While pomo writers are the worst, I think they are just extreme examples of a very general mechanisms in academia that pushes people to write in an obnoxious and unclear fashion.

It's a very common requirement to write stuff with a certain minimum length. Just think about what that does to people. You have a topic, you write a text about it, the text is good as far as you can tell, but it's only half the required length. So what do you do? You learn the art of the waffle.

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Whatever happened to political manifestos being written as pamphlets?

writing in academia has gotten so bad because academia is just another power structure.

prove me wrong.

I think there is a super meaningful difference between academics writing for themselves and them writing for a general audience.

Academa BTFO

Contis on suicide watch

Yes but what is the point of knowledge if it is only accessible by academics with phds? It's point is impotent curiosity.

feels bad man