Certainly not unique to Baudrilliard. Judith Butler I think has been voted one of the worst academic writers several times to my knowledge (she was president of

Certainly not unique to Baudrilliard. Judith Butler I think has been voted one of the worst academic writers several times to my knowledge (she was president of MLA for a term, too, if I'm not mistaken). Deleuze and Guatarri are famously incoherent, Derrida as well (Of Grammatology being famously translated by the famously vague Spivak), and personally I find Arendt incredibly difficult to follow. FWIW, a lot of these postmodern authors come from the Continental tradition's linguistic turn, and as a result if you're writing coming from a skepticism towards language's ability to convey meaning in the first place, you're probably going to end up with a pretty complicated but vague articulation. It probably also comes quite a bit from a bit the Hegelian influences.