Let me cut to the chase. What the fuck does this even mean? Below is a quotation from Judith Butler. This quote and author are known to me only from being openly mocked in other sources for the excessive opacity that has become characteristic of the genre:
Generally I am capable of understanding complex English sentences if they have substance. Even when there are terms and references I don't understand, I'm generally able to determine what the author is trying to say about them. Not so in this case. Mainly all I can determine is that this is a syntactically valid English sentence describing how someone or something moved from a "structuralist account" to an "Althusserian theory", and in doing so brought the question of temporality into the question of structure. The author has helpfully (?) interposed her definitions of those terms, and I suppose it's her explanations that I'm most struggling to understand.Originally posted by Judith Butler
So, what does she want to say here? I'm asking for serious interpretations - let's just assume for the sake of discussion I've already had the passing thought that it may be nothing but elaborately contrived bullshit. But if someone does have it on good authority that this is in fact confirmed bullshit, I'd like to know that as well.