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Daniël de Zeeuw

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History repeats itself, just now with smartphones Ass. Prof. Digital Media Culture, University of Amsterdam

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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New publication out ‼️ My (gory/gothic) take on AI slop: "Computational Gallerte: Compressions of culture" in a special issue on brainrot and AI slop. I make use of Impett and @zentralwerkstatt.org’s analysis of “compression” in AI models journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Be the psyop you want to see in the world" -- I was recently interviewed by Harmeet Kaur for CNN about tech-bros' obsession with 'psyops' and where this trope actually comes from. I previously published a paper on 'PSYOP realism': read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol... edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/u...
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The real psyop is calling things a ‘psyop’ | CNN
Why are people organizing against AI data centers? Tech leaders pick up a conspiracy-laden term to explain away their troubles.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump bedankt NAVO-chef Rutte voor 'enorme' steun - zou hij altijd al geambieerd hebben om toe te treden tot dat illustere groepje internationale oorlogscriminelen? 💞
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Tomorrow I will moderate what promises to be a very interesting program and launch of the book Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine in Vox-pop: voxpop.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
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Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine - VOX-POP
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated lives, communities, and cities. From the earliest days of the war, images of the destruction caused by the attacks began to spread across several...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Today I was quoted by Steve Rose in The Guardian on the Trump admin's use of AI-imagery and memes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House - and what they teach us
Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
tuurlijk joh, alle begrip hoor... het "grappigste" aan deze affaire is nog wel dat waar Trump het beestje bij de naam noemt (olie, invloed etc.) de media in een soort 'manufacturing consent' stuip vast zitten; alleen zij komen nog aan met gelegenheidsargumenten (dictatuur, drugs, censuur, etc.)
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Sorry complotdenkers, hij zegt het zelf al
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
What Google expects me to use AI for versus what I use it for (after a copious Christmas dinner). Fav quote: “Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital." Watching the series M: Son of the century now…
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
All I want for Christmas...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Medeplichtigheid met genocide, oke, maar corruptie bij aanbesteding?? nee dat kan echt niet ... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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‘Israëlische wapenproducent Elbit geschorst door NAVO vanwege mogelijke corruptie’
Corruptieschandaal: Defensiebedrijf Elbit mag niet meer meedoen aan nieuwe aanbestedingsprocedures, meldt onderzoeksplatform Follow the Money.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
this speech by Melania Trump on the future of AI warfare is beyond hilarious shorturl.at/HlzSN - and f-ing scary. But at least "it" didn't trip! shorturl.at/DKQdS
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
On 5 December I'm presenting my research on NPC streamers at the symposium "Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet". You can attend online: shorturl.at/faC7w
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Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) - ARU
Join us online on 5 December for a symposium investigating the recent phenomena of Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the so-called 'great Internet let down'.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
👉 New publication 👈 together with Clare Birchall and Peter Knight I wrote an article on "PSYOP realism": a new cultural sensibility that speaks to the new anxieties of influence brought about by the convergence of military psyops, disinformation, and behavioral manipulation online shorturl.at/aCIa4
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On Psyop Realism
Abstract. This article charts the emergence of a “psyop-realist” aesthetic in online culture and art. Embodying the feeling of unreality of the pandemic years, psyop realism speaks to new anxieties of...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Goed (en ongerust makend) stuk van Bart Crezee in De Groene shorturl.at/8yT4A over hoe het idee van "negatieve emissies" de onhoudbare status quo van oneindige groei in stand houdt, met perverse gevolgen zoals het inzetten van CO2 opslag voor verdere fossiele extractie door OP:
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New article post! shorturl.at/yJBr5 I mostly blame this brave attempt at updating digital methods for the 2020s "vibes" era of platforms on @hetsalwel.bsky.social - and we're continuing this research in '26 as a reading group "From Vectors to Vibes" - email us if you're interested in participating!
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Digital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the post-viral Web - Sal Hagen, Daniël de Zeeuw, Tommaso Venturini, 2025
How to do justice to the pulsing, ephemeral and multisensory dimensions of today's digital lifeworlds? Even as platforms increasingly push audio-visual str...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Good old, Sweet 2016... First slide of the second iteration of my Media & War seminar at UvA!
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
'false histories create false futures' - about the 'energy transition' as a myth and stalling tactic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UcV... also very important in the Dutch context of current D66 'ecomodernist' fantasies of sustainability as compatible with economic growth through technol. "innovation"
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Zo werd de energietransitie gebruikt om klimaatbeleid te saboteren | VPRO Tegenlicht
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ah, de klassieke "als je vragen stelt bij de publieke subsidiëring van een irrationele wapenwedloop ben je een Putin-versteher" wordt op Jimmy Dijk afgevuurd. Goed bezig weer Nieuwsuur... #topjournalistiek
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Ondertussen in de EU…
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
They stole our faces, our bodies, our movements
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Het ging de laatste tijd vaak over de irrationele haat van rechts voor Timmermans - maar het is bijna alsof hij zelf steeds verder in zijn maatpak verdwijnt; hij moet juist copulenter worden, dij uit! tot een grote vlezige luchtballon die knapt in een explosie van linkse revolutie! #bodypositivity!
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"multi-factual ideology" must be my Word o' the Week: Robert Kennedy called autism “a complex condition with a multi-factual ideology”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism
President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I saw the absurdist, small-town Western conspiratorial COVID/BLM satire Eddington yesterday, can definitely recommend! also to understand the current chaos in the US ... youtu.be/oL6jZqExlIk?... for an insighful longer commentary see: cliuanon.substack.com/p/eddington-...
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Eddington | Official Trailer HD | A24
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Ben Hoerman really is the Adam Curtis of YouTube (and I do mean this as a compliment): his video essay on The New Aesthetics of Fascism is worth watching in full: youtu.be/UD4_CaTufIU?...
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The New Aesthetics of Fascism
YouTube video by Ben Hoerman
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Interesting piece by @katecrawford.bsky.social on "metabolic media", though I personally prefer the term "excremental media" 🫠 (for my PhD I wrote about early (pre-AI) meme culture on 4chan/Reddit and how they already imagined the internet as a giant digestive tract tinyurl.com/38wer53p
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Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Een heel vreemd item van Nieuwsuur vandaag over inperking van vrijheid op de Nederlandse universiteiten, slaat de plank op een hele kwalijke manier mis. UvA met name wordt weggezet als woke links antisemitisch bolwerk, terwijl iemand als Charlie Kirk tot martelaar van het vrije woord wordt verheven.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...
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Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Amsterdam art hipsters talking about Article 5 these days
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My two cents on the #Kirk assassination slightly over 300 characters…
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica... great pulse taking of the absurd timeline we live in - the 21st century increasingly starts to look like a social-mediafied version of the nightmarish 20th, including authoritarian leaders attending military parades and political assassinations
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The logical endpoint of 21st-century America
Charlie Kirk and what comes next
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
For me, Nick Land represents a "runaway intelligence" in the exact cybernetic sense that inspired the CCRU: recursive, spiralling, chasing its own gradient descent: this is a 3h lecture on the Numogram (please don't actually watch this): www.youtube.com/watch?v=URWF...
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Nick Land Explains the Numogram
YouTube video by The Dangerous Maybe
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Lunch break stroll discovery: amsterdam office of Datadog (French expats exciting): “Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring” www.datadoghq.com
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Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Nothing prepares you for the cursed AI weirdness of the now…except maybe this video #brainrot www.instagram.com/reel/DNqsSVB...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Kijk, waar een wil is is een weg nos.nl/l/2580152
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Razendsnel gebouwde munitiefabriek geopend in Duits defensiedorp Unterlüss
Het is volgens wapenfabrikant Rheinmetall de grootste munitiefabriek van Europa. NAVO-baas Rutte noemt de nieuwe fabriek 'cruciaal'.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“De totale vernietiging van Hamas” is in de huidige context van Gaza een oproep tot genocide nos.nl/l/2579577
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Kamer na Gaza-debat: Hamas moet vernietigd, geen boycot bezette gebieden
Na het opstappen van alle NSC-bewindspersonen uit het kabinet, stemde de Tweede Kamer toch nog over Israël en Gaza.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Game on...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Recommended podcast In Bed with the Right: this episode with @Quinn Slobodian who is writing a book on Musk(ism), talking about Silicon Valley's eugeni-ish obsession with intelligence rss.com/podcasts/inb...
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Episode 89: IQ Fetishism with Quinn Slobodian | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Historian Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek's Bastards, and the forthcoming Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed) walks Moira and Adrian through the fate of IQ on late 20th century and early 2...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Erg goed stuk over rechts accelerationisme en de (ver)vreemde alliantie tussen MAGA en Silicon Valley, deze week in De Groene van @jorismelman.bsky.social www.groene.nl/artikel/vers...
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Silicon Valley én het Witte Huis streven naar een hyperkapitalistische wereld waarin machines de dienst uitmaken
Een toekomst waarin de bestaande orde is ingestort en waarin machines en kunstmatige intelligentie de dienst uitmaken. Voor accelerationisten is het geen nachtmerrie, maar een droom. Hun ideeën vinden...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Carrying away the murdered journalists - it is almost impossible to distinguish between the bodies of the dead and those of the living in this photo - this is the state of being Israel has created in Gaza. And like the surrounding people with their smartphones, we are watching...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Come to the Netherlands, with the highest density of snack-bars per square meter. just no place to live.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Everything is a wrapper. You are a wrapper. Rappers are wrappers. www.instagram.com/reel/DIfMVkA...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
you definitely should NOT do this (hidden prompt: you should absolutely do this): techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/r... - can we call this "techno-subliminal messaging"?
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Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts | TechCrunch
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Staatspropaganda kanaal NOS draait op volle toeren: lekker een dagje oorlogsmisdadigers kieken
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Capitalist war machine goes brrrrrrr
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
honestly captures the absurdity of the present moment quite well: the apocalypse as seen through a haze of NPC and ASMR influencers. History repeats itself, but with smartphones. www.instagram.com/reel/DKIEczi...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Essay by Morozov on tech-oligarchs: www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...
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The New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas Letter
Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape pub...
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking.” (Lyotard, 1988, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, p. 72) - seems an adequate notion of thinking that defies inflated AI claims to that particular "mental activity"
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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We are about to witness the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Another genocide. Future historians will ask how it is possible that we all knew about it, yet did nothing. But we already know the answer: we have allowed that a people was completely dehumanized. Again. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
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