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Nat Muller

@natmuller.bsky.social
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Curator, writer, researcher of contemporary art, SWANA, science fiction, Anthropocene, ghosts. Has a PhD in Lost Futurities. Loves to eat and has a weakness for dogs, bats, sloths, and gargoyles. Unapologetically opinionated. natmuller.com

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thrilled to have my first piece published on @markaz-review.bsky.social. A review of the 18th Istanbul Biennial, The Three-legged Cat. themarkaz.org/the-three-le...
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The Three-Legged Cat—Istanbul's 18th Biennale
Amidst a society in turmoil, and the city's mayor in jail, the 18th Istanbul Biennial resonates with the disquiet in the land.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg
A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 21/07/2025
Israeli authorities in the Occupied West Bank are planning to seize control of the Ibrahimi Mosque, stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality of administrative responsibilities over the historic holy site.
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Israel Says It Will Hand Over Hebron Mosque to Settlers
Israeli authorities reportedly plan to strip the Palestinian municipality of control over the Ibrahimi Mosque, where a Zionist extremist massacred 29 Palestinians in 1994.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale
An external review found that Creative Australia was unprepared for the risk of controversy in an atmosphere of antisemitism and Islamophobia
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...
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Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to...
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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Apply for a fully funded sound studies writing residency taking place in Amsterdam in February 2026. Open to one established artist, researcher or scholar working in the field of sound studies. Deadline to apply: 14 June sonicacts.homerun.co/the-walls-ha...
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'The Walls Have Ears' – Sound Studies Writing Residency
Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis present The Walls Have Ears – a fully funded sound studies writing residency taking place in Amsterdam in February 2026.
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
THREAD: While students across the US celebrate graduation, Israel is erasing entire generations of Palestinian students—with weapons funded by American tax dollars.
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Sign the Petition
In Defense of Art Research: A Call to Support ACPA, PhDArts, and docARTES
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Glad @kunsthalkade.bsky.social exhibits renowned Lebanese-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, however it felt a little underwhelming. The urgency and visceral aspects that so typify her oeuvre did not fully come across. Lost opportunity to contextualise her practice amid the ongoing violence in 🇵🇸 🇱🇧.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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On 21 April, Germany will deport me – an EU citizen convicted of no crime – for standing with Palestine | Kasia Wlaszczyk
Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germany’s lurch to the right, says Kasia Wlaszczyk
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’ This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 31/03/2025
Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank isn't being ignored by accident—it's part of a deliberate global acceptance of ongoing genocide and displacement. 4 reasons why the world remains complicit—and how a new generation might finally change that. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...
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Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world
Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since…
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Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Cultural journalism is a dying industry. It's not our fault, but it needs admitting. www.eurozine.com/surviving-in...
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excellent show ‘Stitch Witch’ by Dutch-American artist Lara Schnitger at Museum Kranenburgh. Love her ‘Slut Sticks’ that performatively repurpose lingerie and are intended to be sculptural as well as be actively used during protest marches.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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‘We’re Witnessing the Last Gasp of Israeli Violence’: In Conversation With Avi Shlaim | Novara Media
Professor Avi Shlaim speaks to Sebastian Shehadi about his latest book, western complicity in the genocide in Gaza and how Israel’s own archives turned him into an anti-Zionist.
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Armed Israeli settlers are violently destroying Palestinians homes in the West Bank and forcing families into homelessness to steal more land for Israeli settlements. This is systematic ethnic cleansing.
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Israel ramps up settlement and annexation in West Bank with dire human rights consequences
GENEVA – The Government of Israel last year ratcheted up settlement of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, transferring its own population into the territory and unlawfully demolishing P...
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 17/03/2025
Vandaag gaat de estafettestaking tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap verder. Aan 50% van de Amsterdamse universiteiten wordt gestaakt. Succes aan de UvA-collega's! 💪🏽
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Impressive in situ screening at The Hague’s Hofvijver of @margitlukacs.bsky.social & Persijn Broersen’s video Het Hof Van De Leeuw. A fable as opera, a power struggle between different ideologies, all set at the ruinous heart of Dutch politics, Het Binnenhof. Apt and prescient.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana following brief court hearing mondoweiss.net/2025/03/mahm...
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Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana following brief court hearing
In a hearing in New York City on Wednesday, Mahmoud Khalil’s attorney’s said they have not been allowed to have contact with him since his detention. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s rationale fo...
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety buff.ly/ZPdyquJ
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A lot of this will resonate with freelance art workers, not independent, but often dependent on the systemic bad practices of institutions.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Stunning Berlinde De Bruyckere show at Bozar,Bxl. Viscerally serene, solemnly estranging, monstrously creepy and therefore mesmerizing.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is insane. Arrested and green card threatened to be revoked because you oppose a genocidal slaughter. apnews.com/article/colu...
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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Azza El-Hassan, The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance (New Texts Out Now)
The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is part of a series of acts I have engaged in since 2017, which together explore if something anew can emerge out of ruins.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very important points being made in this article. This should not diminish the achievements of the film in what is, politically and culturally, a very hostile climate. mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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“No Other Land” for Whom?
The Palestinian-Israeli documentary indulges in a familiar kind of wishful thinking.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/02/2025
The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... new phd post in my research program, please share!
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PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
newrepublic.com/maz/article/... A true hero!
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice | Novara Media
Despite being nominated for the best documentary Oscar, the Israeli-Palestinian co-production has struggled to find a US distributor. This sorry situation is a reflection of the spinelessness of an in...
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Support, if you can! whydonate.com/en/fundraisi...
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Fundraising Archives du Savoir Féministe Intersectionnel | Fundraiser
Fundraising
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/02/2025
Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on "Perfect Victims," Trump & Israel's Criminalization of Thought
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Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on “Perfect Victims”
We speak with the acclaimed Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on the publication day for his new book, Perfect Victims. It comes at a time of heightened censorship and attacks on Palestinian expression...
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins
Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.memoreview.net/articles/let... Re: The Withdrawal of Australia’s 2026 Venice Biennale Representatives
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Open Letter | Memo Magazine
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
hyperallergic.com/988773/faree... @hyperallergic.com
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Fareed Armaly Rejects German Prize, Citing “Disturbing Trend of Censorship”
The artist and curator turned down the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts, citing the German state’s crackdown on advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Ransacked" -- Selma Dabbagh in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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Selma Dabbagh | Ransacked
On 9 February, two branches of the Muna family’s bookshops in East Jerusalem were ransacked by Israeli police. They...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/02/2025
Israel’s ongoing assault on the West Bank is not to wipe out the Palestinian resistance. It is to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes and set the stage for annexation. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...
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Israel’s offensive in the West Bank is the second act of the Gaza genocide
Israel’s ongoing assault on the West Bank is not to wipe out the Palestinian resistance. It is to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes and set the stage for annexation.
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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Another art pilgrimage to skip then. hyperallergic.com/988255/docum...
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Documenta Adopts Widely Criticized Definition of Antisemitism
The embattled organization’s new code of conduct effectively stifles scrutiny of the Israeli state.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Artist Muhannad Shono’s intervention ‘A Forgotten Place’ uses AC condensation to irrigate feral plants found in the industrial area of Al Quoz, Dubai. A modest but important experiment in urban rewilding of what is otherwise a concrete jungle.
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Ferry Biedermann @ferrybiedermann.com · 30/01/2025
EU-China relations in the age of Trump and DeepSeek - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Abdaljawad Omar on the ceasefire - and resistance as the “disruption of the ontological certainties of the colonizer” mondoweiss.net/2025/01/gaza...
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Gaza ceasefire reveals Israel’s fragility, and the transformative power of resistance
In the wake of a ceasefire, many will try to force the discourse into a binary of victory and defeat. But as the dust settles, a true picture emerges: one of the fragility of the Israeli colony, and t...
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Indeed very long overdue. Worried what horrors will rain on the people of Gaza before this takes effect Sunday.
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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
issues more convenient and inclusive. We began this journey by placing our 27th issue "Learning with Palestine" in open-access. This experience has been transformative for us and encouraged us to reiterate our commitment to improving access to ideas for all. It has also been an
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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
OPEN CALL. IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2025. Eligible artists must be based in BE, NL, Luxembourg or Germany ikob.be/en/veranstal... #feministArt
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Historical Narratives and Memorcide. Part 2 of my interview with artists Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind for Amos Rex. youtube.com/watch?v=_4Cl...
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