...process'. It is not determined in the sense that it can always be 'won' or 'lost', sustained or abandoned. Though not without its determinate conditions of existence,...sustain it, identification is in the end conditional, lodged in contingency. Once secured, it does not obliterate difference. The total merging it suggests...

...process." It is not determined in the sense that it can always be "won" or "lost," sustained or abandoned. Though not without its determinate conditions of existence,...sustain it, identification is in the end conditional, lodged in contingency.39 In this sense, any theory that wants to account for the relation of writing...

...definition, the discursive approach sees identification as a construction, a process never completed — always 'in process' . . . Though not without its determinate...sustain it, identification is in the end conditional, lodged in contingency. (Hall, 1996: 2) One of Hall's key points, then, is that identities are never...

...process'. It is not determined in the sense that it can always be 'won' or 'lost', sustained or abandoned. Though not without its determinate conditions of existence,...sustain it, identification is in the end conditional, lodged in contingency. (1996: 2-3) Psychoanalysis, for Hall as for Butler and Bhabha (as we will see...

...process." It is not determined in the sense that it can always be "won" or "lost," sustained or abandoned. Though not without its determinate conditions of existence,...sustain it, identification is in the end conditional, lodged in contingency. Once secured [identification with blackness for instance] does not obliterate...