Two prevailing inflections of ‘persistence’ occupy the social imagination. In the first, generally considered the domain of toddlers, journalists and telemarketers, persistence comes as something troublesome, incessant, and largely irritating. In the other, persistence is held as a virtue; a capacity maintained by those capable of ‘seeing things through’. Each version of the term may well share a common foundation (hanging on too long can, after all, descend to irritation), but either way, persistence is a capacity that declares its presence; a signifier of the ‘stuff’ of its bearer, and the nature of the situation. Persistence notifies the intention that whatever may come is here to stay. This paper will outline two visions of Cultural Studies in light of these inflections of persistence in order to pose questions of what it is that Cultural Studies should hope to achieve in a world grown precarious.

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文化研究的持久性：在一个动荡的世界中文化研究的地位和目的的简要考虑

“持久性”的两个主要变化占据了社会的想象力。首先，持久性通常被认为是蹒跚学步，新闻工作者和电话推销员的领域，这是麻烦的，持续不断的并且在很大程度上令人讨厌。另一方面，坚持是一种美德。由能够“看透事物”的人保持的能力。术语的每个版本都可能具有共同的基础（坚持太久会导致恼火），但是无论哪种方式，持久性都是表明其存在的能力。承载者的“东西”和情况性质的标志。坚持不懈的意图是，无论发生什么事情，这里都会留下来。