Time Magazine, and website, writer Richard Lacayo has had it with curatorial dialectic syntax, as exemplified in the Whitney Biennial. Link.
"I know this is a small gesture, but deprived of this tiny arsenal [of jargon], half the bad writers in the artworld would be disarmed."
Don’t forget the infamous 1996Sokal affair, where a physicist named Alan Sokal submitted a hoax article to the left-leaning publication Social Text, a postmodern journal dedicated to "cultural studies." In Sokal's own words, he had intentionally written a pseudo scientific paper displaying a total absence of "anything resembling a logical sequence of thought; one finds only citations of authority, plays on words, strained analogies, and bald assertions." The parody article was full of meaningless nonsense, but Social Text took the bait and unwittingly published what the author would later reveal as a major prank.
In writing about the Sokal affair, Thompson states that "Sokal attributed the acceptance of his parody to the proliferation of 'a particular kind of nonsense' among left-wing theoreticians," even though Sokal has his own commitment to left-wing politics. Sokal explained his hoax in the following manner:
"Why did I do it? I confess that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them."