I read a few pages of thousand plateaus and I didn't get the impression he really wanted the reader to make sense of it.
It's full of quotations of works you would certainly know if you had enough culture. It feels like an violent attempt to humiliate the reader into submission. Apparently the english version came out with a lot of footnotes to provide context. This probably betrays the spirit of the original.
I'll try to listen to the podcast though, maybe some civilized people did manage to find something valuable in his writing.
It's full of quotations of works you would certainly know if you had enough culture. It feels like an violent attempt to humiliate the reader into submission. Apparently the english version came out with a lot of footnotes to provide context. This probably betrays the spirit of the original.
I'll try to listen to the podcast though, maybe some civilized people did manage to find something valuable in his writing.