The Academic Language Poll

[queerbychoice]

This entry is brought to you today by my not-entirely-successful efforts to read the book Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, and by having to look up "hermeneutics" in the dictionary for what must be the 20th time, because it never sticks in my head. There comes a point when I just need to reassure myself that I have company.

[Poll #530723]

Comments

[ardhra]

I think the fact that a lot of the writing is deliberately obsure comes from a desire of the writer to make people think for themselves about its meaning, and not just absorb it like they would a children's book, suspension of disbelief and all. They're writing about deliberately controversial topics, so I think it's only responsible to leave people room for interpretation and disagreement.

...Then again, they might just be pointy-headed cloistered bourgeois wankers. ;-p