The author describes the need of the curriculum studies community to look at a new dialectic—one marked by a physics that pull ideas inward toward some centripetal center. However, there is tension between looking for unifying ideas as they articulate with a multiplicity of incommensurate ones has marked the nature of most scholarly thinking. Despite this tension, several projects have recently been launched in the field that might signal a new age for curriculum studies. These projects have opened a new dialogue that considers possibilities of finding some semblance of canon or disciplinarity in the field.