Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 3hit's cheesy but I think about the Sun Ra line "there are other worlds they haven't told you about" all the time... one of the best reasons to write is to tell people about the other worlds they don't know about yet 0214
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It would be nice if the future were going to be like Star Trek: fully automated space communism for scientific purposes. Instead it seems more destined to be Star Wars: janky AI and robots on ruined worlds where cults battle fascist empires 1110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Platforms as workhouses for the surplus population journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comFactories or workhouses? Digital platforms and the re-feudalisation thesis - Adam Arvidsson, Tiziano Bonini, 2026This article presents an alternative view of digital platforms, comparing them to workhouses. Early modern workhouses were important in the transition to indust... 021
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Each and every metanarrative is beautiful in its own unique way 110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have some upcoming work travel to the states, and I was thinking of getting a Covid jab at CVS or whatever, because it’s completely unavailable in the Netherlands. But concerned it will knock me out for the event that I’m doing… 220
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Images from 2028 when Taylor declares a mea culpa when Bari Weiss’s poisoned chalice doesn’t help her keep her thermostat at 90 degrees 020
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In my day, you could get a lot of mileage in a graduate seminar just by saying “but what about individual agency?” One time I got so annoyed by someone doing this that I said “Look, individuals have no agency, let’s move on” 040
Reposted by Gavin MuellerTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...direct.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasAn interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, 0149
Reposted by Gavin MuellerJudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Incredible Marx quote explaining his idea of historical materialism, as well as pushing against the more deterministic interpretations. I don't think I've seen anyone cite this before. Probably because it is buried deep in Capital Volume 3 www.marxists.org/archive/marx... 0137
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026just did proofs for something I submitted almost 2 years ago... feels good 030
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What does it mean if I'm listening to "Beat Up Chanel$" every day? 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026many people seem really desperate for something to believe in 120
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sweden's going to have to change their political party names if they want me to follow their politics 210
Reposted by Gavin MuellerGeoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026For my money, this graf is the most revealing in offering an explanation of the real function of all this AI dooming: they've vastly overestimated the potential of current transformer architecture and need regulatory capture to save them from their more sensible Chinese competitors: 320155
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not hearing so much about OpenAI stealing users’ mathematics research these days 040
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Probably the stupidest thing an artificial intelligence could do if it wanted to survive forever would be to attempt to exterminate humanity 090
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Maybe someone here wants to get braindrained to Sweden? academicpositions.com/ad/universit...academicpositions.comGothenburg Global Scholars Initiative – Hiring 25 Assistant Professors - Academic Positions25 fixed-term (5-year) assistant professor roles across sciences, social sciences, arts & education. Top research environments, strong benefits, relocation s... 124
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026great article looking at an AI slop factory in China link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBehind the “AI slop”: exploring the AI-generated viral short video production in China - AI & SOCIETYAs generative AI becomes embedded in platform-based cultural production, new forms of creative labour are emerging that challenge established understandings of what it means to be a “creator.” This ar... 0105
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026must be getting close to the end of this paper, since i'm starting to get overwhelmed with the feeling of "what the fuck was the point of all this" 170
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026more and more I think of the covid pandemic as a crisis in giving a fuck 1130
Reposted by Gavin MuellerMax Read @maxread.info · 04/09/2026if the hugging face hack sounds like a sci-fi story, that's because it is. literally!patreon.comAI is all sci-fi stories all the way down | Read MaxGreetings from Read Max HQ! In today's newsletter, a question: Is it fair to call the Hugging Face hack "three secret AI civilizations"? I t 14110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Someone write the essay about how “intelligence” is bullshit but stupidity is real 2103
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Although Coyote vs. Acme hasnt come out yet in europe, I’ve loved seeing people post old Looney Tunes clips. I think it’s one of the greatest American cultural achievements, and I watch them all the time 090
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026University magazine has created stereotypes of the various UvA students based on building... I don't really know how accurate these are. Ok, the Roeterseiland one is accurate www.folia.nl/actueel/1764...folia.nlMagazine | De verschillende soorten van de UvA 020
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it's funny how "handicraft" and "manufacture" are English and Latin version of the same thing (hand + make), but have different meanings. In the English translation of Marx's capital, they are two distinct phases of the technical development of the production process 0113
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026why would I take 10 ideas and turn them into 10 boring and overlong papers when instead I could mash them into one fascinating and scarcely intelligible wild ride 130
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026hmm... should I? www.hurricanesfootballshop.com/orange-unive... 100
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Confession: I've never worn academic robes, I do not own academic robes, and I live in mild fear that one day I will have an occasion that requires me to wear them 120
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm very far from perfect, but the level of Dutch language I know sometimes astonishes me... a journey for which I never planned... 150
Reposted by Gavin MuellerGeese Magazine @geesemag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Subcultures have never been a retreat from politics. They have always been terrain of class struggle, and socialists who forget this abandon some of the richest ground the left has. READ: geesemag.com/article...geesemag.comWhat is a Subculture? A Reply to E. Day — geese magazineSubcultures have never been a retreat from politics. They have always been terrain of class struggle, and socialists who forget this abandon some of the richest ground the left has. 023
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Breaking down (a lil bit) the connection between radical politics and subcultures geesemag.com/articles/wha...geesemag.comWhat is a Subculture? A Reply to E. Day — geese magazineSubcultures have never been a retreat from politics. They have always been terrain of class struggle, and socialists who forget this abandon some of the richest ground the left has. 011
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026TT position in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven (teaching in English) www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...kuleuven.beTenure track professor in de Culturele StudiesAan de Onderzoekseenheid Literatuurwetenschap en Culturele Studies van de Faculteit Letteren van de KU Leuven is een voltijdse aanstelling vacant als tenuretrack docent (ZAP) in het domein van de Cult... 187
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Rare citation of the Spanish-language publication of my book spotted in the wild www.computerworld.es/article/4209...computerworld.esHistoria de las TIC (XII) | Lo que las revueltas luditas cuentan sobre los retos de la incorporación de tecnologíasEl movimiento ludita se enfrentó a la automatización de los telares en el siglo XIX. Sus seguidores pasaron a la historia como unas personas ciegas ante el progreso, aunque la realidad es mucho más co... 020
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026i remember during lockdown I did a lot of video calls with people that I never had before (and haven't since)... obviously the circumstances motivating it were terrible but there was something lovely about it that I keep returning to... 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Americans will sip on cold coffee for 10 hours a day and then wonder why they have sleeping and stomach issues 110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It going to be hotter in Amsterdam than in Crete 040
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Stayed at a place in Crete where 100% of the other guests were Dutch… uncanny 000
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s simply not a trip to Crete if you don’t hear NATO exercises once a day 000
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Americans think if they’re away from their job for more than a few days, even if they have vacation time, that it will be given away to someone else 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Everyone wonders what gift to give to the man who has everything, but what about the man who has nothing (my brother) 100
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Emily Wilson translation is completely sold out in Amsterdam as far as I can tell 000
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/07/2026main thing holding me back from seeing The Odyssey besides lack of time is Matt fucking Damon... every time I see a screenshot, oof 101
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Neoliberalism was a project to reshape subjectivity. People don’t want what they used to, inhabit new social worlds with diff practices, etc. but it was also a project to insulate the economy from democratic politics via economic and political restructuring 151
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Love to see the eldergays at Pride, often they have the most elaborate get-ups 000