What is the object of cultural studies? If we want to reconsider cultural studies we need an object for our attention. So what of the subject of cultural studies? Are we explained by Judith Butler's paradox of subjection: that we are the instrument of agency and at the same time the effect of subordination, or the deprivation of agency? (Butler, 1997, p. 10). Perhaps we are in a discursive formation that one learns (or has learned) to understand, and from that point on the formation partially constitutes its learner—its "taught." Our investigations then become a kind a literacy, a way of seeing :
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