You&#x27;re not being anti-intellectual, but you&#x27;re overlooking the fact that it&#x27;s a precise, technical language, used in post-structuralist philosophy to describe and analyze social reality (e.g. by Deleuze, Foucault <i>et al</i>.), and is very rigorously formulated in the relevant texts. I guess any academic jargon would look &quot;absurd&quot; by a(n in regard to this domain) layperson.