Poststructuralism’s anti-subject philosophy demanded a deliberately obscure Modernist style.

Evidence

This erasure of the distinction between philosophy and literature leads Derrida to write books some of which - Glas, for example, in their punning, allusive style, their endless unravelling of the meanings of words, their reflexive absorption in exposing their own rhetorical nature, resemble nothing more than Modernist works of art. … It seems as if the effort to deny the subject its self-certain unity and dislodge it from the throne on which Descartes had placed it required a self-consciously difficult style, which relied as much on indirection and allusion as it did on explicit assertion and consecutive argument. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier claim that Nietzsche is the source of the principal theses of postmodern theory; also to the Jameson corpus on the aestheticization of theory. — connects to: Poststructuralism is essentially a discourse of modernism, not postmodernism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 285; Foucault traces the subversion of the Cartesian subject to Modernist literature and philosophy — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 287; Poststructuralism’s piecemeal politics arose from dashed 1968 revolutionary hopes. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 347
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 290

Broader Connections

• Poststructuralism is essentially a discourse of modernism, not postmodernism #qualifies (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 285
• Foucault traces the subversion of the Cartesian subject to Modernist literature and philosophy #corroborates (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 287