Obviously, not all academics write like this.  Not by far.  It&#x27;s the hallmark of various followers of postmodernists like Derrida and Lacan.  Particularly favored by far-left academics in departments of gender studies, multicultural studies, women&#x27;s studies, etc.<p>Multiculturalism is a wonderful thing, but not the brand that these frauds sell.<p>You can read a pretty devastating critique of these pseudo-scholars in the book Fashionable Nonsense, which describes how two physicists made up a completely bullshit paper, full of utter nonsense, had it accepted for publication in one of the leading postmodernist journals of the time, and confronted a fierce but intellectually empty counterattack by postmodernism&#x27;s supporters(this was in the 90s) [1].<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intellectuals-Science&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0312204078" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intell...</a>