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While extremely guilty of attempting to write this way myself, I am getting sick of reading the style of writing so common in the academic texts of cultural and queer studies. Two examples from the article before me: "Inasmuch as literary criticism investigates queer literature (or que[e]ries literary representation), it tends to rely on queer theory/post-structuralism. Broadly speaking, queer theory views and deploys queer signifiers as a general deconstructive strategy and not as a (dialectical) representational technique." and "...reads the dilatory wanderings or 'loiterliness' of fictional flâneurs and cruising subjects as deconstructive figures on location--that is, as figures of a counterdisciplinary, antidiscursive practice whose wayward and wanton flâneries permeate, traverse, and transgress the boundaries and grids of urban architex/cture."
I wish I could ban all slashes, dashes, parentheses, and brackets. Back to not comprehending Dianne Chisholm's argument.