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Daniel Cockayne

@dcockayne.bsky.social
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Assoc. Professor, GEM, University of Waterloo. Economic and cultural geography of work through Marxist, feminist, queer, and affect theory. Mostly I'll post about books and stuff. (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 scholar.google.ca/citations?user=6H…

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do we stop the Booker Prize committee from enabling Elizabeth Strout?
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'm not saying it's acceptable or good policy, but the multiple data breaches that have happened over the years have not sparked nearly this level of public outcry. My point is simply that there is a massive disconnect between who is asking, what is being asked for, and how the public respond.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It is ironic that we've all been uploading our personal thoughts, demographic information, consumer habits, and so on, to social media and other websites for 25 plus years at this point, but the second a government asks us to confirm our age online we lose our collective minds.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New commentary in TIBG: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Tyler Blackman & Daniel Cockayne (2025) entitled: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' with a red banner at the top.

In this commentary, we draw on research on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, to expand on Bissell, Crovara, Gorman-Murray and Straughan's (2025) paper ‘What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home’. We corroborate and add to their analysis of attention in relation to working from home in two ways. First, we develop further how their analysis of attention relates to social difference in working from home settings. Second, we consider through additional examples how attention relates to a working from home politics. These points lead us to push for the importance of the multiplicious theory of attention that the authors outline in their paper, against the declension narratives that often accompany solely subtractive theories of attention that they critique in their conclusion. We emphasise a theory of attention that is ambient, bifurcated, open, complex and multifaceted, as well as one that is, under certain circumstances, subtractive. We see these former ideas of attention as more central to notions of presence and better foreground the broad range of subjective experiences of work and working.
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Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social. Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This commentary responds to and extends recent research by Bissell al. (2025). We add to their analysis of attention, focusing on social difference and workplace politics by drawing on examples from ....
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Who at Routledge is responsible for changing the pagination of Gender Trouble seemingly every time it is reprinted and what form of retribution is appropriate for such a crime?
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
AI is useless.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Really wonderful to work on this project with @tylerb.bsky.social - this includes a little two-page work of speculative fiction about work refusal in an AI-saturated future, as well as a bit of academic commentary. We're quite happy with it - check it out!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Booker is an English language prize, not a British one.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article analyses the career of Edward Curtis by centring the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, his relationship with George Bird Grinnell, and his production of spatial knowledge toward land d...
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
Meme image of Bernie Sanders, with text that reads, I am once again updating my mega post about how awful the Cass Review is.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2025
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance
Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I think we need to start upping the social pressure against using AI. Professors in the quotes talking about how it’s no different than Google. Absolutely pathetic.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
To the surprise of literally no one.
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Jesus fucking Christ
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/03/2025
”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
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OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Only someone born and still living in Toronto, someone who has never left the GTA, could think this, surely...!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In an attempt to be generous I'm wondering if some of these folks only knew the name of the panel they are speaking on and then overall event/poster detail was finalized later. Unlikely, but possible I suppose...
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Gross. Sad to see some of these names...
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This looks incredible!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I've been using the term straightening device after Ahmed and I also want to use cissening device but it just seems too clumsy somehow...!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Or, perhaps, it's not.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) is a financial technology that is reshaping online consumption by allowing users to split payment for goods over 3–4 interest-free digital installments. While the use an...
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/01/2025
Martin Luther King was born on this day 96 years ago. He was murdered at age 39. When I was younger, I thought he lived far into adulthood. Now that I’m 42, I think, he was such a baby when he was pushed into the spotlight.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Interesting thread.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It's part of "Triptych, May–June 1973" I think.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Especially when you know the story behind this one, it's horrible.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Some of Francis Bacon's paintings are very good and very unpleasant to look at IMO.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's exciting to see the launch of Urban Political Ecology (the journal). I'm on the ed board along with a bunch of great folks & it's a venue that values practitioner-facing articles to develop tools and concepts that make sense of cities' future as the ecological crisis intensifies.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Good that it can be used against it's intended purposes! Thanks for sharing
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
👀 Would you mind sharing the title of the Stoller paper?
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy NY all!
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
📚 It's time for the Fitzcarraldo Editions staff picks for Books of the Year 2024* 📚
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Watching Carol and listening to Bad Gays: the perfect Christmas.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
She forgot to read the Wikipedia page for Bodies That Matter!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Sadly it's hard to do unless you're an attractive white man that says to other white men VCs in pitch events things like, "exploiting the poor has become too cumbersome, out product provides a solution for that."
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Trying to work in the last hours of the last day of the working year is proving very challenging.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Favorite books read this year, in no particular order: The Empusium - Olga Togarczuk The Long Form - Kate Briggs Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid Jazz - Toni Morrison The End of the Day - Lydia Davis Next year I'll be tackling The Books of Jacob...!
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Ironically I'd say thay crypto's use as a means of payment in criminal activity is one of the only ways it legitimately functions as a form of money.
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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This looks excellent!
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