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Legitimacy Machines, Altars of Control: Governing Wonder & Training Power Across Screen Worlds

A book-stage project on how screen worlds govern wonder and train recognition of power before institutions fully justify themselves.

2026 · Developing book project · Author

  • media studies
  • legitimacy
  • screen cultures
  • governance
  • wonder
A developing book project on wonder, legitimacy, and training power across screen worlds.

Developing book project

A developing book project on wonder, authority, and screen worlds

This book-stage project studies how screen worlds govern wonder and train recognition of authority. It follows the affective side of power: the way legitimacy is rehearsed through media forms, repeated interfaces, ritual framing, and the visual atmosphere of control.

The project is at the book development stage — argument in motion, not a finished manuscript. The emphasis is on direction, method, and scope.