Disciplinary paradigms fail alone and require transdisciplinary supplementing

Evidence

We do live in a period when many of the existing paradigms established and developed within traditional intellectual disciplines either no longer in themselves adequately correspond to the problems that we have to resolve, or require supplementing from other disciplines with which they have not historically been directly connected. These are the openings for what is called a transdisciplinary field of inquiry. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1194

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides the mechanism by which transdisciplinary fields like cultural studies open up: existing disciplines no longer correspond to the problems at hand.
• XREF: Directly relevant to how Islamophobia studies draws on Orientalism, biopolitics, and postcolonial theory across disciplines — Hall names the structural reason such borrowing is necessary. — connects to: Interdisciplinary theory required scholars each expert in a scientific field plus philosophy; Interdisciplinary social research requires theoreticians each expert in one discipline, not generalists — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 727