Comprehension test (a challenge if ever there was one)

Explain what these sentences mean… Please.

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relationships in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”
- Written by Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.

"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo -scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classification can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalize' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."
- Written by Homi K. Bhabha, professor of English at the University of Chicago in his book The Location of Culture.

Note: I usually score very high on comprehension test but both these pieces caused me immense confusion before I could even finish reading them. I just can't read it because my mind starts tying itself in knots just trying to figure out what any given sequence of ten words means, let alone an entire phrase.