Gavin Mueller
@gavinmueller.bsky.social
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.
This is a fairly novel definition of reification, but I quite like it. From A Political Economy of the Senses by Anita Chari
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is a fairly novel definition of reification, but I quite like it. From A Political Economy of the Senses by Anita Chari
I wrote a book about the politics of technology. I feared it might seem outdated by the time it was released in 2021, but it's kept me so busy since that I'm behind on my next one... www.versobooks.com/products/688...
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I wrote a book about the politics of technology. I feared it might seem outdated by the time it was released in 2021, but it's kept me so busy since that I'm behind on my next one... www.versobooks.com/products/688...
Ever since my brief stint there, I felt like Texas was one possible future for America, the evil fascist one (unlike the other evil backward states of the Bible Belt, it "works" in the sense of capital accumulation)... great essay on the theme thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ever since my brief stint there, I felt like Texas was one possible future for America, the evil fascist one (unlike the other evil backward states of the Bible Belt, it "works" in the sense of capital accumulation)... great essay on the theme thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
They don't want you to know that, if you really really try, you can believe in metanarratives again
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
They don't want you to know that, if you really really try, you can believe in metanarratives again
One weird thing about raising kids in Amsterdam is sometimes other parents are just straight-up ravers
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One weird thing about raising kids in Amsterdam is sometimes other parents are just straight-up ravers
incredible essay on acid house and the Roland TB-303 gagosian.com/quarterly/20...
Fake the Funk | Gagosian Quarterly
Tracing the history of white noise, from the 1970s to the present day, from the synthesized origins of Chicago house to the AI-powered software of the future.
gagosian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
incredible essay on acid house and the Roland TB-303 gagosian.com/quarterly/20...
Little Red Books, Museum of Swiss National History, Zürich
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Little Red Books, Museum of Swiss National History, Zürich
My train was delayed just enough so I was going to miss my connection, but then my connection was delayed, so I can make it. This is German excellence
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My train was delayed just enough so I was going to miss my connection, but then my connection was delayed, so I can make it. This is German excellence
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Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
Taking my 6yo to a book launch at a squat tonight… you can just do things
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Taking my 6yo to a book launch at a squat tonight… you can just do things
rotterdam/gabber/blahblahblah, but HOW did BELGIUM punch so far above its weight in electronic music? 80s EBM is influencing Chicago house and Detroit techno, pop-techno tracks like "Pump Up The Jam" are hits in America, even a lot of the best 90s hardcore & underground techno is Belgian
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
rotterdam/gabber/blahblahblah, but HOW did BELGIUM punch so far above its weight in electronic music? 80s EBM is influencing Chicago house and Detroit techno, pop-techno tracks like "Pump Up The Jam" are hits in America, even a lot of the best 90s hardcore & underground techno is Belgian
New useful Dutch saying: “eraan wennen”
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New useful Dutch saying: “eraan wennen”
I always put some jokes in my presentations (sorry) but the biggest laughs from my last one was unintended, it was just showing the part in Abundance where they favorably cite Fully Automated Luxury Communism
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I always put some jokes in my presentations (sorry) but the biggest laughs from my last one was unintended, it was just showing the part in Abundance where they favorably cite Fully Automated Luxury Communism
simply an incredible week in New York
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
simply an incredible week in New York
coming to the crippling realization there is likely no way to fit a dozen everything bagels in my luggage to bring from NYC to Amsterdam... considering abandoning some clothing...
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
coming to the crippling realization there is likely no way to fit a dozen everything bagels in my luggage to bring from NYC to Amsterdam... considering abandoning some clothing...
looks fantastic, can't wait to check it out www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...
Notes Toward A Digital Workers' Inquiry — Common Notions Press
A theory-driven account of the stakes and knowledge-building practices of the resurgent labor movement from organizers across the gig economy and tech industry.
www.commonnotions.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
looks fantastic, can't wait to check it out www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
Amsterdam at a kids Halloween party at — where else? — a dive bar. Before you ask, yes, the bar is observing the cultural boycott of Israel
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Amsterdam at a kids Halloween party at — where else? — a dive bar. Before you ask, yes, the bar is observing the cultural boycott of Israel
never as much a cultural nationalist as when europeans complain about halloween supplanting their autumn holidays... sorry, candy, horror movies, and spooky costumes is superior to whatever tradition has you writing a poem so a medieval scamp will leave an apple in your boot
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
never as much a cultural nationalist as when europeans complain about halloween supplanting their autumn holidays... sorry, candy, horror movies, and spooky costumes is superior to whatever tradition has you writing a poem so a medieval scamp will leave an apple in your boot
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The international news story about the Dutch elections is sadly misleading: fewer votes were cast for leftwing parties, while the far right remained stable. And Geert Wilders may yet come out on top.
Far right suffer losses in Dutch election, with country set for its youngest ever PM
news.sky.com/story/nether...
news.sky.com/story/nether...
Netherlands election: Geert Wilders' far-right party suffers blow as centrists lead in exit poll
Far right parties have been on the march in countries including France and Germany, but long-serving Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has been dealt a blow in his country's latest general election.
news.sky.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The international news story about the Dutch elections is sadly misleading: fewer votes were cast for leftwing parties, while the far right remained stable. And Geert Wilders may yet come out on top.
Reposted by Gavin Mueller
"We were raised to believe over the decades that machines will outgrow us[, but] automatons are not consuming the globe brilliantly. They are not outsmarting us—they are overfitting on us."
Snehamol Joseph & Jeena Joseph (2025)
Digital decay: when AI eats its own homework doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Snehamol Joseph & Jeena Joseph (2025)
Digital decay: when AI eats its own homework doi.org/10.1007/s001...
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"We were raised to believe over the decades that machines will outgrow us[, but] automatons are not consuming the globe brilliantly. They are not outsmarting us—they are overfitting on us."
Snehamol Joseph & Jeena Joseph (2025)
Digital decay: when AI eats its own homework doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Snehamol Joseph & Jeena Joseph (2025)
Digital decay: when AI eats its own homework doi.org/10.1007/s001...
one of my favorite soviet proto-memes: Trotsky as St. George
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
one of my favorite soviet proto-memes: Trotsky as St. George
receiving such expert and timely assistance from a research librarian that I have resolved to bring her a gift when I visit the archive
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
receiving such expert and timely assistance from a research librarian that I have resolved to bring her a gift when I visit the archive
Meeting the younger generation where they are by referring to creating a literature review as “scholarshipgooning”
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Meeting the younger generation where they are by referring to creating a literature review as “scholarshipgooning”
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Come one, come all, for @gavinmueller.bsky.social at @thenewschool.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Come one, come all, for @gavinmueller.bsky.social at @thenewschool.bsky.social