THE CONVERSATION OF CULTURAL STUDIESFootnote1

1. This is a revised excerpt from Lawrence Grossberg. ‘James Carey and the conversation of culture,’ in Key Concepts in Critical and Cultural Studies, eds Linda Steiner & Cliff Christians, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, in press. I am grateful to Daniel Carey for his comments on the paper. I offer this paper in the spirit of Jim's famous interview: ‘[L]ife is a conversation that continuously goes on, that continuously renews itself, and, therefore, renews you. All work is a matter of self-renewal, which is a renewal of the other. No one has the last word. There are no final thoughts, there is no end to the conversation.’

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