More Postmodern Mush

Judith Butler (a professor of literature at UCLA) is a postmodern "theorist" who writes so badly and pompously that she was actually awarded a PRIZE for bad writing by people who cannot read her without laughing in derision:

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power".

Silly cow.