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Tyler Blackman

@tylerb.bsky.social

PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the future of work and the changing meaning of work. He/him. I am also active on: @dialogueshg.bsky.social More here: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tblackma

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Sharing my first published article from my PhD research!

It draws from my ethnographic experiences at ‘future of work’ conferences and completing online courses on the subject, particularly how the discourses I observed shape a narrow vision of the ‘ideal worker.’ 

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10.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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 ....

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.

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24.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

06.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
In a scene from the simpsons, a woman holds a clipboard with a list of reasons. The reasons are "spite", "malice", "revenge", "boredom", and "profit."

In a scene from the simpsons, a woman holds a clipboard with a list of reasons. The reasons are "spite", "malice", "revenge", "boredom", and "profit."

"So Mike, what's motivating you to finish your PhD?"

08.01.2025 13:41 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Ideational geographies workshop

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details:
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

17.11.2024 01:08 — 👍 100    🔁 84    💬 3    📌 3
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XR as Spatial Media Across Disciplines By Tyler Blackman and Daniel Harley

This week on CAVRN, @tylerb.bsky.social and Daniel Harley reflect on the promotion of the Apple Vision Pro, its branding as a ‘spatial computer’, and conceptions of spatiality and spatial media within and across XR disciplines. Check it out here: cavrn.org/xr-as-spatia...

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