Wells,+Susan.+Rogue+Cops+and+Health+Care..+What+Do+We+Want+from+Public+Writing?

The desire for a public derails the activity that might construct one. Our choice is between the bad abstraction of a publicity which barely disguises privilege, and the concreteness of a self-reflexive practice directed at critique and self-consciousness rather than intervention or agency. Cultural studies has made invaluable contributions to political pedagogy, but it does not answer the question of how students can speak in their own skins to a broad audience, with some hope of effectiveness.