Allready Bohm noted that most of the change happens gradually between Kuhnian 'revolutions'. But Bohm - who was not only great theoretician but also great philosopher of science - was also correct that without revaluation of its philosophical foundations - premisses and axioms and also and perhaps even more importantly less conscious presuppositions and prejudices (some call them "myths"
- science can become fragmented and dogmatic dead-end.
And as for "pomo" I'm not quite sure what that refers to, but if phenomenological continental philosophy (Heidegger etc.) has anything to do with that, its value to scientific progress is in exposing and deconstructing subconscious "mythical"/"metaphysical" presuppositions of Western thought that manifest also in scientific theory building.
As for the "pomo jargon" it is only natural that it is hard to comprehed without having been exposed to the larger context of continental philosophy, but even as such, not as hard as the jargon of mathematical physics without a doctorate - and then some! - in the field. Checking wikipedia for the jargon of text like this does not help much, as the magic of math is AFAIK sort of embodied comprehension of very far-out geometric imaginations and algebraic relations, which for dafts like me goes way over the scalp:
http://matpitka.blogspot.com/2012/03/p-adic-homology-and-finite-measurement.html#comments
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