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A particularly striking consequence of the narrow emphasis on the workplace in technical communication is that technical communication is the only field in the social sciences that has yet to develop underlife as a legitimate area of study. The term underlife refers to communicative acts that “employ unauthorized means, or obtain unauthorized ends, or both” to undercut prescribed organizational norms (Asylums, p. 189) and is associated with an early move in sociology research to examine off-the-record or “deviant” communication in organizations (cite Goffman). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the fields that “nourish” technical communication (Johnson, p. 13) such as composition studies (Brooke, 1987), literacy studies (Beall and Trimbur, 1993; Moje, 2000) and industrial-organizational sociology (White, 1983) began to investigate forms of underlife that are found within, or are related to, more traditional research sites: list examples. Explain hackers and hacks with Bob as implied imaginary reader [cf fjr’s advice]. Incorporate the phrase “cooperate interdisciplinarily with” to show that TC is a big loser for its failure to join in.