Here I thought I was the only one reading IEET, but, I guess not.
It took me a solid five years of reading nothing but trash and writing letters to get grad school out of my system and begin to write a clear, simple sentence.
And he writes:
Actually, interestingly enough, the rhetoric of proposing otherwise here, of obfuscating technodevelopmental deliberation at the relevant level of concrete decisions, actual stakeholders, and discernible impacts for an abstract affirmation of "design" or "technology" conceived as bland generalities does often have a politics—and usually it is a de facto conservative politics, even when it exhibits the superficial trappings of radical futurology.
I should offer him my course in how to write normal again.
I guess "the period" was a class on a day he missed.