To continue with our survey of disciplinary evolution: The term “post-disciplinarity” evokes an intellectual universe in which we inhabit the ruins of outmoded disciplinary structures, mediating between our nostalgia for this lost unity and our excitement at the intellectual freedom its demise can offer us. Is the era of post-disciplinarity upon us now? Finally, “trans-disciplinarity” refers to the highest level of integrated study, that which proposes the unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the disciplinary perspectives and points toward our potential to think in terms of frameworks, concepts, techniques, and vocabulary that we have not yet imagined. It must be acknowledged, however, that the very notion of “trans-disciplinarity” may strike many of us as chimerical, sinisterly monolithic, or as a ruse for smuggling back in old dreams of objectivity and universal knowledge. Are we then right back where we started, or does our investigation of disciplines and the nature of knowledge maintain our historical perspective? – Julie A. Buckler
Well, so what term to use? A completely new fabrication? A remix, a mash-up. Or just ignore and forget the whole thing about (public) discipline, instead, focusing on internal and self-discipline. That’s all that is important these days. Waning lives, crumbling Empire, who cares what labels people tattoo on each other’s brow. (keep away from m’fucking head, dude!)