Interdisciplinary

refusing the walls between fields

Terms about refusing the walls between fields — the stance of crossing disciplines, credentialed or not. Different nerve from Self-Taught (which is about authority) and from Adaptive Expertise (which is about transfer). Canonical lineage: 1920s SSRC origins, area-studies expansion mid-century, Klein's Interdisciplinarity (1990) as the standard reference; deeper roots in the polymath tradition (Burke, The Polymath, 2020); recent popular framing in Epstein's Range (2019).