Explains a lot. His books aren’t anything like his public presentations. He argues in a very linear manner. But he writes in parallels, so that each book takes on a topic that runs alongside a previous book. And so on. His works on Hegel read like systematic philosophy: re-sorting old ideas, and interposing new ones, and reclassifying terms in terms of their closeness or involvement in “materialist ideology”. Its when he talks that he seems imprecise or verbose, but someone who has read him can follow him as he weaves from theme to theme.