The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
the double negation of academic norms: Thus, all university norms, those which preside over the selection of students to the co-option of colleagues, as well as those which govern the production of lectures, theses, and even purportedly scientific works, i.e., in and by the scientific establishment, always tend to favor the success, at least within the institution or scientific discipline, of a modal type of man and work, defined by a double negation, i.e., brilliance without originality and heaviness without scientific weight, or, if you will, the pedantry of lightness and the coquetry of erudition.