Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge

The roundtable examines how intellectual movements and paradigms have historically organized knowledge within disciplines -- from functionalism and structuralism in anthropology to postmodernism in various fields. The discussion explores whether contemporary scholarship has entered a phase where traditional movement categories no longer effectively structure academic thought. Key topics include Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift theory, the Internet's fragmentation of knowledge dissemination, social polarization creating isolated communities of belief, and AI's generation of authentic and fabricated scholarly content. The organizers suggest we may be entering a new era in how knowledge is transmitted and organized across sciences and humanities.