Aesthetics and Affect in Social Life
How do designed objects and embodied experiences mediate power and decision-making in social relationships?
Publications
2023. “A (Possible) Labor Politics of Judgment?” International Journal of Communication.
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.