![]() ![]() As well as a chronicle of cultural change it is an intervention in it and it has both overt and implicit political aims. This work is, in the words of Stuart Hall, a "moment of self-clarification". No matter how hard you try to talk about somebody else, you are always going to be talking about yourself. In the politics of gender, sex, and the body, the existence of the body is for us all, a statement of gender from the moment of birth. The truth of any "becoming", though, is a falsity, though it maybe true at the level of the text. In studying I politicise and theoretise the culture of gender and irreversibly change it. I become a part of the object of my study as I produce. It is an active engagement in a pedagogy with the textual producer about whom one is textualising. To participate, to textualise, is to become a historical conjecture. Cultural studies was defined and originated as a political project "it holds theoretical and political questions in an ever irresolvable but permanent tension" (Hall, 1992: 284). In the process, which is not only one of observation but of textualising a version of the observations, one becomes a "cultural contribution". To be involved in cultural studies is undoubtedly a contradictory project. ![]()
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