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Teleological restrictions of speech are institutionally embedded in higher education. And this is as true of Feminist and Cultural Studies as it is of conventional disciplines. The interdiscipline of Women's Studies has been directly formulated through and around issues of pedagogy. Interdisciplines have an uneasy and contradictory relationship to disciplines. Disciplinarity and the disciplinary dimensions of interdisciplinary studies are processes which reproduce not only territories, citizens, and exiles but also the mechanisms of disciplinary policing itself. Interdisciplinary pedagogy in whatever context is not only about defining and designing alternative cartographies of the speakable but about designing alien, extra-terrestrial, and alienating spaces wherein practitioners, students and teachers, are tested and sorted in or out of place. Restrictions of time and place, timing and standing, underpin the etiquettes of …