Everyone and their mother is a PhD candidate - so congratulations I guess. Anyway. His writing is for a specific context. It is not meant to be read and understood by a general audience (ex. the AV Club). The response here was anti-intellectual because it was attacking the scholarly analysis of cinema, not engaging…

This is selective quoting - the entire (run-on) sentence is: "The becoming-animal is, for Deleuze/Guattari, an instantiation, if not the paradigmatic example, of a raft of concepts that will be of exceeding familiarity to Deleuzians – and baffling obtuseness to those who are not conversant with the idiosyncratic…