Drawing on the author’s witnessing 12 years of experimental presentations at cultural studies sessions in various venues, the account goes back and forth in time as a double-voiced text as (a) a narrative of the development and maturation of these presentations and (b) a reflexive account of the questions and problems the author faced in creating an experimental text. Underlying the voices is a problematic about the worth of sociology.
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