Sentence:  Yet it is this very proliferation that has induced Stanley Fish to proclaim the imminent demise of theory, a demise whose most telling symptom is precisely the "noise" generated by theory. Commenting on and extending Fish's line of argument, Vincent Descombes argues that we have entered a phase of theoretical <WSD>confusionism</WSD> that makes it difficult to determine what theory is. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.