Aesthetics and Affect in Social Life

How do designed objects and embodied experiences mediate power and decision-making in social relationships?

Publications

Forthcoming. “A (Possible) Labor Politics of Judgment?” International Journal of Communication. Download preprint version.
2022. “The Enchanted Labor Process.” Marxist Sociology Blog.
2022. “Effort in Absence: Technologically Mediated Aesthetic Experiences of the Culture Industries’ Routine Workers.” Ethnography.
2021. “The Year Ends in the Next Room: Reflections on ‘Remote’ Work.” Footnotes: A Magazine of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
2021. Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries. New York: Columbia University Press. Download Chapter 1.
2016. “Disappearing into the Object: Aesthetic Subjectivities and Organizational Control in Routine Cultural Work.” Organization Studies. 37(5):687–708. Download preprint version.
2016. “Control from On High: Cloud Computing, Skill, and Acute Frustration among Analytics Workers in the Digital Publishing Industry.” Research in the Sociology of Work. 29(1): 125-153. Download.
2016. “Sonic Sensations of Industry and Fandom at VidCon 2015.” The Sound Ethnography Project. March 4, 2016. http://www.soundethnography.com.
2013. “Inhabiting the (aural) Aesthetic Dimension.” The Sound Ethnography Project. August 25th, 2013. http://www.soundethnography.com.
2013. “Revisiting Music in Everyday Life by Tia Denora.” Volume!: The French Journal of Popular Music Studies. 10:1. 306-308.