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.
one of my better recent slides
February 10, 2026 at 11:27 AM
one of my better recent slides
it looks like this part of Alex Karp's Technological Republic might be a hastily revised "autism supremacy" thesis... is this getting big in Silicon Valley?
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 AM
it looks like this part of Alex Karp's Technological Republic might be a hastily revised "autism supremacy" thesis... is this getting big in Silicon Valley?
Girl Scout cookies have been platformized
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Girl Scout cookies have been platformized
This was what I sent to someone years ago who was finishing up while struggling with depression
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This was what I sent to someone years ago who was finishing up while struggling with depression
New book edited by my colleagues on the politics of AI. Stellar group of writers, and a free e-book networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New book edited by my colleagues on the politics of AI. Stellar group of writers, and a free e-book networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
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 I feared it might seem outdated by the time it was released in 2021, but it's kept me so busy since that I'm behind on my next one...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 I feared it might seem outdated by the time it was released in 2021, but it's kept me so busy since that I'm behind on my next one...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...
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
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
We celebrate hybridity and cultural fusion
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We celebrate hybridity and cultural fusion
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
incredible troll of a book
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
incredible troll of a book
Stolperstein in my neighborhood. He was a teenager who was shot during the February Strike in Amsterdam, which was the only mass protest against the deportation of Jews in Nazi-occupied europe
October 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Stolperstein in my neighborhood. He was a teenager who was shot during the February Strike in Amsterdam, which was the only mass protest against the deportation of Jews in Nazi-occupied europe
I wrote a bit about Nobel in an early draft of my book, but ended up cutting it:
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a bit about Nobel in an early draft of my book, but ended up cutting it:
Have to say Da Neetch was cooking with this line
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Have to say Da Neetch was cooking with this line
Last paragraph of Jameson’s postmodernism essay… I’d say this is basically what Hardt & Negri attempted to do
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Last paragraph of Jameson’s postmodernism essay… I’d say this is basically what Hardt & Negri attempted to do
Syllabus for my Marxist theory seminar
September 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Syllabus for my Marxist theory seminar
See you there? www.eventbrite.com/e/new-luddis...
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
See you there? www.eventbrite.com/e/new-luddis...
seen in the cheap book box across the street
September 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
seen in the cheap book box across the street
New culinary blasphemy has dropped in the Netherlands: “extreme sour” white chocolate kruidnoten. Clearly the aesthetic philosophy here is “more is less”
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New culinary blasphemy has dropped in the Netherlands: “extreme sour” white chocolate kruidnoten. Clearly the aesthetic philosophy here is “more is less”
We have to model proper academic behavior for our students: your rants against AI should be drawing from the latest peer-reviewed research
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We have to model proper academic behavior for our students: your rants against AI should be drawing from the latest peer-reviewed research
