Orwell/Adorno

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       ...Scholars like Judith Butler at the University of California
       had been arguing that 'linguistic transparency' was a
       dececption, compelling intellectuals to confine themselves
       to the demotic and hampering the capcity 'to think the world
       more radically.' Those who took this position- Gayatri Spivak
       notable among them- tended to cite Thomas Adorno. Those
       who opposed it- Noam Chomsky, for example- commonly
       used Orwell's insistence on plain *contestable* speech as
       one of their critical resources. Contrasting Adorno and Orwell,
       Professor Miller came up with some similarities, some anti-
       thesis and some unexpected synthesis. (194-5)

_Why Orwell Matters_, Christopher Hitchens, Basic Books, 2002.
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