Daniel Cockayne
@dcockayne.bsky.social
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) 🏳️🌈
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Hello everyone! Many of us are new to this platform, so I thought I would post some things that I wrote this year, alone and with others, as a way to introduce myself. I'm proud of this research and excited to share. This thread is a short summary of these contributions with links.
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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
'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
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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
'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
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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...
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...
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 ....
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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...
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...
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?
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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?
Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social
“Buy now, pay later” services have become “the gateway drug to consumer debt for more and more women,” Annie Joy Williams argues—and these payment programs are thriving in our influencer-driven world:
August 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!
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!
New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.
Open Access Here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
Open Access Here:
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August 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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!
Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?
Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!
July 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?
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....
July 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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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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...
June 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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...
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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
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
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
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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....
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....
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...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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....
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....
This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.
What resources are distributed across the AI value chain, and to whom? Who benefits in the AI value chain, and who is harmed?
In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The ethics of AI value chains - Blair Attard-Frost, David Gray Widder, 2025
Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) need more integrative approaches for studying and in...
journals.sagepub.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.
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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.
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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May 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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.
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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.
Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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.
To the surprise of literally no one.
People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds
People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds
Research raises questions about long-term treatment of and support for people using weight loss drugs
People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown.
Analysis of 11 studies of older and newer GLP-1 weight loss drugs by the University of Oxford found that patients typically lost 8kg on weight loss jabs but returned to their original weight within 10 months of stopping them. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
To the surprise of literally no one.
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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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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”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.'"
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.
variety.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
”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.'"
Gross. Sad to see some of these names...
March 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Gross. Sad to see some of these names...
If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.
March 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.
This looks incredible!
In "Care at the End of the World," Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- & queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of US welfare reform. Read the intro for free on our website now! #DisabilityStudies
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February 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This looks incredible!
Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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....
I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her.
“He was never quite satisfied by the solitary joys of the imagination, but he also knew that reality would never be as rich as his lingering dreams.” #NYRBWomen25 Ugh, Edoardo. 😩
January 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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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.
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.
January 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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.
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.