Towards a new cultural studies

Generative Anthropology is the most promising form of cultural studies today. Those who read Anthropoetics already know this, even if what they do travels under different disciplinary names. The contribution of Generative Anthropology to knowledge about culture as such - its varieties, its structures, its histories, its genesis - rivals that of Cultural Studies in its halcyon years (in the Anglo-American world, a period from about 1972-1985). The interrelationship between the two fields - Generative Anthropology and Cultural Studies - and the light they shed on each other’s practices form the subject matter of this essay.