[Editors] world's worst sentence?

[David Schultz]

Scott,

My propeller doesn't spin fast enough for the first sentence, but I wonder if the second sentence isn't a clarification of the first?

Dave Schultz
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On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Scott R Campbell wrote:

Certainly a contender:

Often called “The most famous feminist philosopher in the United States”,  Judith Butler is the author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).


I believe she is deserving of a Bulwer-Lytton award for such exhausting sentences as:

"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."

She also is known for succinct sentences, such as:  "I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic."

The friend who sent me this went on to comment:

Reflecting on the first sentence, I  wish I was smarter.  On the second, I wish I was laughing more frequently.

Which might be a contender for the best laugh I've had in a while.  (Yeah, I wish I were laughing more frequently too, but maybe that's TMI.)

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