Yes. “Academic” isnt the right term. Its dense like academic language but its also borderline incoherent.

Even more so than borderline incoherent academic writing like Foucault or Lacan or whatnot, for that matter. It’s less “I don’t understand this and I suspect the author doesn’t either” and more “reading this feels like having a stroke.”

Nowhere close. Claude can be overly compact and use a lot of neologisms, but if you unpack the dense language, it actually means something fairly concrete. In obscurantist academic writings, there is often no referent. It's just text, a kind of performance art in itself.