Incorporating biology into Cultural Studies has been a fruitful move in the recent years; a move many believe would save the discipline from being over-indulgent with the concept of language games. This entails two chief aspects in the interface between Cultural Studies and science:
According to Chris Barker, Cultural Studies has suffered by sealing itself off from the empirical rigours of science and the embodied nature of human beings. There is an urgent need to adopt the languages of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, psychotherapy and a meaningful spirituality if the discipline has to fulfill its therapeutic function as well.
