Intellectual work as political practice means living with tensions, not resolving them.

Evidence

I’m extremely anxious that you should not decode what I’m saying as an anti-theoretical discourse. It is not anti-theory, but it does have something to do with the conditions and problems of developing intellectual and theoretical work as a political practice. It is an extremely difficult road, not resolving the tensions between those two requirements, but living with them. Gramsci never asked us to resolve them, but he gave us a practical example of how to live with them. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘organic intellectual’ project and the tension between theory and political practice via Gramsci.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s concept of the organic intellectual and hegemony, core to Hall’s whole framework.