ABSTRACT
Political changes have swirled through the last two decades. It has been a time of decaying economic infrastructure, the decline of the traditional left, the rise of neo liberal agendas and a birth of another third way. Cultural Studies has always worked well with the bubbling present. The delight in ephemera, the ever-morphing wash of images, beats, fabrics and gloss, has created a loyal but stroppy community of scholars and –concurrently – vocally dismissive critics. At its exciting, passionate best, Cultural Studies discerns a fashion, fad, cult or theory just in time, and then writes about it as it dies. Cultural Studies scholars grasp at the coat tails of expiring fashions, mediating between the High Street and the Op Shop. An outstanding higher degree could be written about language choice and style within these catalogues. They reveal the great problems in both the monograph market and universities.
