[csaa-forum] Re: magpies and seagulls

[Greg Battye]

Isn't working "across art history/criticism, cultural studies 'avant la 
lettre', film, music, design, etc" precisely what brings us all to 
cultural studies, because that's now the discipline which allows just 
this sort of magpie or seagull (bower bird?) behaviour?

One of the interesting tensions or ironies in cultural studies is, in 
fact, its tendency toward disciplinarity for reasons of academic 
professionalism, even though one of its many useful revelations has 
been to remind us of how recent the disciplines are, as a means of 
organising knowledge. Can we interpret "recent" as "transient?"  
Probably not, but it certainly behoves all of us to keep the holes in 
the fences open. Adrian, you are not alone.

Go magpies.

Greg Battye
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