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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.

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 22h
uh...
screenshot of an inbox full of emails from the AoIR listserv
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
my co-teachers and I have a running gag where we never use a real picture of Foucault, only pictures from "Every Bald Guy is Foucault"
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
my panel at Historical Materialism London
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finalized syllabus for my course in the Critical Studies MA at the Sandberg Instituut
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
from Technocrats Magazine (1933)
"photo cell gives a brain to machines" while depicting mass unemployment
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Images from 2028 when Taylor declares a mea culpa when Bari Weiss’s poisoned chalice doesn’t help her keep her thermostat at 90 degrees
Ed Sheeran crying
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dutch-coded
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
hmm... should I? www.hurricanesfootballshop.com/orange-unive...
screenshot from a webshop selling university of miami gavin mueller jerseys
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
found some motorik in a Golden Girls episode
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
tentative syllabus for my marxist theory course in the fall
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Excited to annoy a new milieu in the fall
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
my graduating critical studies students have their exhibition this week sandberg.nl/events/213907
 Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another, our End of Year Programme taking place on Thursday, June 11 (1-9PM) and Friday, June 12 (2-8:30PM) at De Thomas.
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
welcome to my first tiktok meme, following the #redshambhala trend, itself a problematic "spin" on right-wing agartha memes and part of a general schizoid aesthetic of "hype moments and aura-farming"
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
From the magazine Computers & Automation, 1962
Two employees looking at a third at a computer, saying "I think I know where he's getting all of the suggestions the company has been paying him for."
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How your email finds me:
Summing Up Decades of Crypto-Trotskyism
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In my research on internet Maoism, I came across a self-published sovereign citizen text from 1993 with this cover
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I’ve been to plenty of Dutch museums with highly sexual content but this completely blew me away
Museum exhibit where you push a button to smell “vaginal secretion”
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
back on my bullshit
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
English words they’re learning in my son’s 4th-grade class
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
election time in NL. looks like the Socialist Party is going for the youth vote in the Zwolle mayoral election
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
very good journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For Marx, rent is income persistently in excess of the prices of production, arising from monopolistic barriers to capital mobility that impede the equalization of profit rates. Commercial profit, by contrast, remunerates circulation and realization functions and gravitates around the average rate of profit. It becomes rent only where monopolistic barriers prevent new entrants from competing away above-average returns. This classical Marxian theorization contrasts sharply with contemporary accounts of “rentier capitalism” that label as rent any return based on ownership of supposedly “scarce” assets, regardless of whether this depends on the interruption of profit-rate equalization (Christophers 2020). Such accounts tend to conflate rent with profit, and thus come to see monopoly and rent everywhere.1 Once the link between rent and the competitive equalization of profit rates is abandoned, there is no benchmark average rate of profit against which to measure rent. Any income from ownership can appear “rentier.” Redefining capitalism as a rentier order in this way obscures the fact that rent is not a separate source of value creation, but a particular mode of appropriating finite surplus value produced through the labor process. What disappears, in the end, is capitalism’s foundation in the exploitation of labor.
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Signs your kids may be enrolled in a European school: they make disco balls as an art project
Disco ball art project 1
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
You claim you specialize in the history of the Dutch West Indies when your name is clearly
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today I learned they made a graphic novel adaptation of the 9/11 Report
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Friend campaign in the Paris metro doesn’t seem to be going well
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Some people talk about DEI but are you willing to wait in a 30-minute line to live it?
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Free WiFi? Might take a zoom call from here
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This guy
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
one of my better recent slides
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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?
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Girl Scout cookies have been platformized
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This was what I sent to someone years ago who was finishing up while struggling with depression
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New book edited by my colleagues on the politics of AI. Stellar group of writers, and a free e-book networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
cover of the book Vectoral Agents
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is a fairly novel definition of reification, but I quite like it. From A Political Economy of the Senses by Anita Chari
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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...
the cover of the book Breaking Things at Work
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Little Red Books, Museum of Swiss National History, Zürich
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We celebrate hybridity and cultural fusion
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
one of my favorite soviet proto-memes: Trotsky as St. George
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
incredible troll of a book
cover of the book The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I wrote a bit about Nobel in an early draft of my book, but ended up cutting it:
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Have to say Da Neetch was cooking with this line
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Last paragraph of Jameson’s postmodernism essay… I’d say this is basically what Hardt & Negri attempted to do
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Mood
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