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Gavin Mueller

@gavinmueller.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day. Trying to keep it more professional here. Usually says yes.

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17m

I just make it for the day of, whisk it up in a lil dish

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 1h

One simple thing you can do to improve your meals and impress everyone: make your own salad dressing

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 8h

Bro I thought you said these fascisms were micro

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

you never know unless you try!

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a bit about Nobel in an early draft of my book, but ended up cutting it:

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

I like to say "Rome didn't fall in a day"

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

bad metaphor, as I am imagining a delicious bowl of chinese noodle soup basically all the time

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

Have to say Da Neetch was cooking with this line

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

Actor-network theory with Chinese (food) characteristics

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d

Last paragraph of Jameson’s postmodernism essay… I’d say this is basically what Hardt & Negri attempted to do

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 5d

I thought students would be eager to discuss dating apps, while finding the reading from The Ordinal Society too dry, but it was the opposite. Apparently dating apps are so abject that they can scarcely bear to think about them, and the algorithmic transformation out of liberalism is more compelling

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 6d

I know, I always try to accept because there is a bad gender imbalance for doing peer review

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 6d

did something I almost never do: declined to do a peer review. i'm really overwhelmed right now!

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 7d

I have a running gag with my coteachers that we never use actual pictures of Foucault, but only pictures sourced from the "Every Bald Guy Is Foucault" twitter account. Pretty sure students are no longer able to reliably identify The Rock now

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 8d

I really hate how much the celebrity gossip has been incorporated into pop music, i associate this with swift but also kanye as he was falling off, and, while autobiography has been in lyrics for a long time, I mark Eminem as the inflection point to total TMZization

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 8d

mogging everyone at the gym by reading Minima Moralia on the elliptical machine

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 9d

What's the best part of being a member of the PMC? Hard to choose, but for me it's probably when I extend cultural and technological hegemony over the working class

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10d

This translation of Adorno's late essay "Commitment" (which I've assigned to students) has a lot of footnotes, many dedicated to defining terms, that appear to me to be straight-up incorrect unhistoricacts.net/wp-content/u...

unhistoricacts.net

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10d

That’s probably why we can’t have cats, it would just be too entertaining

Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10d

No, but we did have a mouse, which was very exciting

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10d

Interview with my officemate www.folia.nl/en/wetenscha...

Animal-human scientist Maarten Reesink: “I am a cat, born in a human body”

www.folia.nl

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14d

incredible! important and brave work, much respect!

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: Two Unpublished Fragments (On The Tasks of Post-War Marxism) by Horkheimer & Adorno (1946)

- On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party
- The Curse of Writing Today

ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/HA...

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d

Not sure I've seen Foucault lay out his entire research program and approach so clearly in anything else I've read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett · Sexuality and Solitude

A few years ago, we discovered we were interested in the same problem, in very different periods of history. The problem...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d

sausages in germany are my son's proustian madeline