ABSTRACT
In the new field of Transnational Cultural Studies the difference and the relationship between academic and "revolutionary" practices in the interest of social change must constantly be kept in mind precisely in terms of the negotiability of foundations. The radical academic, when sheis in theacademy, has to reckon that names like "Asian " or "African" have histories that are not anchored in identities but rather secure them. Some sociologists have warned against using the label "Third WorId," contaminated at birth by the new economic programs of neocolonialism. Neocolonialism fabricates allies by proposing a share of the center in a seemingly new way: disciplinary support for the conviction of authentic and ethnically founded marginality by the elite. Postcolonialist pedagogy is a strike in the direction of undoing the division between proper and unfounded, by marking the claim to socialism among the claims to catachresis.
