E pur si muove. O narracjach kulturoznawczych

The article presents selected types of narratives that have accompanied the development of cultural studies for the past four decades. They include programme texts, interpretations of cultural phenomena of various methodological focus and elements of a public debate on the significance and role of the currently available findings. The images of cultural studies emerging from these narratives provide the basis for a reflection on the actual possibility to establish a new humanistic discipline in the rapidly changing formal and legal conditions.