Robert Babe has clearly established himself as the leading communications scholar in Canada, following in the venerated footsteps of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Dallas Smythe. This book is an invaluable scholarly critique of American Cultural Studies/Poststructuralism.

James Winter, professor of communication studies, University of Windsor

Babe offers a convincing, welcomed, and timely criticism of poststructuralism with its obsession with language far removed from a material context.

David Berry, Southampton Solent University, The Fifth-Estate-Online

As always, Babe unpacks the delicious debates and unexpected influences in the historiography of communication and cultural studies and in doing so provides provocative and prolific ideas for the reintegration of political economy and cultural studies.

Leslie Regan Shade, associate professor of communication studies, Concordia University