Contents: Jeremy Packer/Craig Robertson: Introduction - James Carey in Conversation with Lawrence Grossberg, Part 1: From New England to Illinois. The Invention of (American) Cultural Studies - James Hay: Between Cultural Materialism and Spatial Materialism: James Carey's Writing about Communication - Chris Russill: For a Pragmatist Perspective on Publics: Advancing Carey's Cultural Studies through John Dewey.and Michel Foucault?! - Jeremy Packer: Rethinking Dependency: New Relations of Transportation and Communication - Gretchen Soderlund: Communication Scholarship as Ritual: An Examination of James Carey's Cultural Model of Communication - Jonathan Sterne: Transportation and Communication: Together as You've Always Wanted Them - John Durham Peters: Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph Revisited - John Nerone: The Public and the Party Period - Craig Robertson: A Ritual of Verification? The Nation, the State, and the U.S. Passport - James Carey in Conversation with Lawrence Grossberg, Part 2: Configurations of Culture, History, and Politics.