文化研究中為俗民代言或以俗民的位置發言的政治需求常使其將美學儀抑為主控階級的意識形態。然而，對於處理文化鑑別標準的抗拒卻也使其落入缺乏自省的批評中。本文強調吳學論述對於文化研究是不可或缺的，因為由知識份子所構連的是學瓦文化本身即無法擺脫在論述上予文化以價值評晰的傾向。吳學，以一個倫理上自我質疑而非以一個道德上自我提昇的基準來予以辯明，可以幫助點明文化研究中「文化經驗文本化」 此一模式的一些技街上的缺失。

　　　　　 The political demand of cultural studies to speak for and as the popular has made it relegate aesthetics as a ruling class ideology. However, the refusal to deal with criteria of distinction has subjected cultural studies to the criticism of its lack of self reflexivity. The article argues that aesthetic discourse is indispensable to the project of cultural studies because popular culture as articulated by the intellectuals is itself not free from discursive evaluation. Aesthetics, when justified on an ethical ground of self problematization rather than on a moral ground of self elevation, serves the purpose of illuminating some technical pitfalls of cultural studies in its formula of "textualizing cultural experience."