Bad Writing Contest

Litt apropo 100-beste bøker og slikt; Philosophy og Literature hadde i noen år en Bad Writing Contest hvis formål var "to celebrate the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles published in the last few years". Litt sånn til glede for alle som har kjempet seg gjennom artikler og bøker skrevet på outrageous academese (prøvde å oversette, men det høres fjongest ut på engelsk...). For å gi et eksempel så vant Judith Butler med denne skjønnheten i 1998:

"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."