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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 · 16h
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 1d
mogging everyone at the gym by reading Minima Moralia on the elliptical machine
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 2d
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 3d
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 4d
That’s probably why we can’t have cats, it would just be too entertaining
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 4d
No, but we did have a mouse, which was very exciting
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 7d
incredible! important and brave work, much respect!
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 8d
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...
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 8d
sausages in germany are my son's proustian madeline
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11d
"For the majority of the population, to become an economic
subject means no more than being compelled to manage declining wages and income, precarity, unemployment, and poverty in the same way one would manage a corporate balance-sheet." - Maurizio Lazzarato
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12d
Today in seminar I drew a contrast between the notion of the subject in Descartes and Spinoza... I pointed out that they lived simultaneously, here in the Netherlands. That's what happens when you let in foreign refugees -- an intellectual golden age
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d
Did you edit him too? Definitely an experience
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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 15d
Last week I had a bit in @theguardian.com about how rhetoric provides a vocabulary for people to think/argue with. Here's my colleague @robtoes.bsky.social explaining how exactly that was done by online reactionaries inventing 'Boriswave'. Read & learn.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Tuesday briefing: The online origins of ‘Boriswave’, the right’s favourite new phrase
In today’s newsletter: How a term created by the extremely online right made it into the mainstream press – and a major speech by Nigel Farage
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d
is it ok to keep my gmail avatar the same self-portrait of Gustave Courbet I've had for 20 years?
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15d
Mood
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 16d
have always found "real abstraction" somewhat reductive (trying to give it a chance in the coming months), but ASR's instinct that Marx is fundamentally doing an anthropology is spot on. i also find myself unable to quit kant completely so having historical materialist reasons for this is satisfying
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 16d
perfect timing, i've been reading ASR
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 16d
Syllabus for my Marxist theory seminar
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 16d
Best rundowns on the white nationalist riot in Den Haag this weekend? Dutch or English
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 20d
It’s interesting what pieces of American slang remain lodged in the Dutch vernacular. You still see “pimp” used to mean “decorate” and people still refer to something cool as “fat”
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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