Pytania (nie tylko) jubileuszowe

The authors and readers of “Kultura Współczesna” need to face the following questions: 1. Does the term “culture” still carry any distinctive meaning? 2. How does the diffusion (dispersion) of the subject of research affect one’s attitude to its theory? 3. Why has transdisciplinarity (in “Kultura…”) turned out to be impossible? With the concept of culture widely disseminated across a variety of research, a new “culture outside culture” is born which turns into the main subject of discussion. Its rise is further facilitated by the “crisis” of theory driven by intergenerational criticism and lack of interest in developing new theoretical languages. Lack of trust in theory translates into a declining interest in transdisciplinarity.