Research on organizations, platforms, and contested authority.
Handle: BadHabitus (a shorthand for the mismatch between habitus and field)
Economic sociology · Organizational sociology · Sociology of technology
How organizations coordinate action when legitimacy is contested.
Software-managed work, dependence, and governance through design.
How value, distinction, and closure are produced inside organizations.
Public sensemaking, contested expertise, and institutional ambiguity.
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Primary materials and entry points.
Selected essays
Three entry points into the broader research and essay program.
The Doubt Machine
How AI Decides Who Deserves to Be Believed
The Two Control Regimes of Post-Bureaucratic Capitalism
Normative control for elite workers, technical control for everyone else
When Disaster Arrives Already Mediated
Movies, post-legitimacy, and the cultural scripts of crisis
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