This week we discuss Diane Marie Keeling’s History of (Future) Progress: Hyper-Masculine Transhumanist Virtuality in Critical Studies in Media Communication. It’s an interesting piece that works through Deleuze and Guattari via the NFL.

Hey all! Check out our interview with Peter Stearns about his new book,Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society. Even though we had some technical difficulties, I still think it’s a pretty good one.

Also, don’t forget to submit an unpublished performance script to thePerformance Pedagogy Archive!

Beemyn and Rankin’s book The Lives of Transgender People is an accounting of their analysis of over 3,000 surveys transgendered people. In the interview, Beemyn discusses how they found so many participants and ways in which they categorized the data.

This week we are chatting with Rachel Dubrofsky about her new book, The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.” Dubrofsky complicates what many of us passively watch - the politics of reality television.

In this episode we talk through Julie-Ann Scott’s “Stories of Hyperembodiment: An Analysis of Personal Narrative of and through Physically Disabled Bodies” in Text and Performance Quarterly.

As always, let us know what you think!

We are thrilled to have Foust and Lair to discuss the assault on higher education from all sides and why communication scholars are particularly poised to respond to these threats.

We got a chance to discuss Ian Bogost's new book which is a media criticism book about video games. We ask whether video games are art, what racial/gendered stereotypes are persistent in video games, and how video games might help us understand identity in the 21st century.

We had a great time talking to Amy Farrell about her book "Fat Shame." She traces the history of the stigma of fatness and the diet industry as well as resistance to that shame. We also discuss her interview on The Stephen Colbert Report.

This week we are discussing the role that performance can play in helping survivors deal with tragedies.

We have a really provocative interview for you this week with Robyn Weigman about her new book "Object Lessons." Weigman walks us through several disciplinary threads of cultural studies and problematizes our expectations of cultural studies. Definitely worth a listen.