Original sentence: Denis Dutton, founder of Philosophy and Literature's "Bad Writing Contest" — which listed examples of the kind of willfully obscurantist prose for which Baudrillard was frequently criticized — had the following to say:.One of Baudrillard's editors, Mark Poster, was among a number of academics who argued for his contemporary relevance; he remarked:.Only one of the two major confrontational books on Baudrillard's thought—Christopher Norris's Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War—seeks to reject his media theory and position on "the real" out of hand.Poster also attempted to refute the most extreme of Baudrillard's critics, the likes of Alan Sokal and Norris who see him as a purveyor of a form of reality-denying irrationalism:
Edited sentence: Finally, Mark Poster, until his death in 2012, was Baudrillard's editor and one of a number of academics who argued for his contemporary relevance; he remarked:.However, only one of the two major confrontational books on Baudrillard's thought—Christopher Norris's Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War—seeks to reject his media theory and position on "the real" out of hand.Nonetheless Poster is keen to refute the most extreme of Baudrillard's critics, the likes of Alan Sokal and Norris who see him as a purveyor of a form of reality-denying irrationalism: