ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author addresses to the academic intellectuals and she argues four somber propositions: that university professors are ‘disciplinary subjects’; that academic interdisciplinary work, including cultural studies, does not alter the existing disciplines; that the university is a ‘disciplinary institution’ located in disciplinary societies; and that the conception of interdisciplinarity is currently undergoing significant change. The author's main goal here is to offer neither encouraging nor discouraging words about the disciplines today and their interdisciplinary offshoots, but to shed new light on the changing dynamics of interdisciplinarity during postmodern times. There she argues a postmodern mode of interdisciplinarity which is different from and antagonistic to its modern forerunner and whose future is uncertain. In keeping with a major concern of this book, the author wants to resituate the question of disciplinarity and its complications within an explicitly postmodern frame.
