ABSTRACT
The word crisis is one which appears with alarming regularity in the discourses of cultural studies. In this collection of papers Lidia Curti uses it to refer not just to the ever-increasing marginality of intellectuals from political life, but to the collapse of many of the intellectual frames of reference which have fueled the development of cultural studies. From structuralism to poststructuralism, from Marxism to feminism, there has, she argues, been an erosion of belief, a decline in the centrality of “strong narratives,” a turning away from binary relations in favor of what Derrida describes as “an indefinite series of differences.”
