with sentences like these

Here’s a sample of Laruelle:

“This is an immediacy alien — at least in principle or in its intention– to the mediation of scission, of nothingness, of transcendence inasmuch as one would understand these as ‘particular’ and transcendent operations: it suffers these, rather, and is constrained to uniting itself to them.”

When you unpack this with a couple of minutes’ work, in context, it does make sense. Laruelle is a fairly systematic writer with a pretty clear idea of where he’s going. But sentences like this can do nothing but erode one’s fan base in the long run.