On the role of intellectuals, of which everyone is considered, Stuart Hall asks what conditions of the world which predate our “selves” might have formed our existence. Hall answers his own question by explaining that culture is being defined as the space through which we learn languages and cultures. As Chomsky explains what he calls “classical liberal thought”, Stuart Hall paint us picture that contradicts this idealistic view by asserting that we enter culture and by doing so appropriate a language which many have created before us, from the past. Hall understands our existence as humans to be one in which culture is used as the basis for understanding world and in doing so, better understanding ourselves through our own shared history.

These are the conditions of our existence which allow for us to create work, but only because we have already subjected ourselves to the laws, conventions and meaning, of a world we could not have made ourselves. Hall refers to transdisciplinary inquiry – the research necessary when the existing paradigms established and developed in classical intellectual disciplines no longer adequately correspond to the problems they resolve, or are requiring supplemental teaching from other disciplines.