Gavin Mueller

Teaching Adorno & Horkheimer tomorrow. Remember, "personality means hardly more than dazzling white teeth and freedom from body odor and emotions"

I hate when someone asks what youve been up to and the honest answer is “writing” but it sounds so pretentious to say it

any all-ages shows at ADE?

The only thing better than politics is hyperpolitics

Trying to get art students enthusiastic about my course by insisting that reading Marx, done properly, is a deeply psychedelic experience

Talking to an American who just moved here with a teenager, about things the kid could get into: “has she checked out the squatter scene?”

At the Ajax Women’s game… they’re playing the hottest Zumba…

Is there an app for poetry? Obviously there’s tons on the web but what about something more mobile-ready

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my panel at Historical Materialism London

youtu.be/XEYQ1xkoErI

Experimenting with having my kids experience boredom

Free collaborative annotation tools that you like?

Sorry I Didn't Catch That, I Was Reading Literary Criticism That I Paid For

Finalized syllabus for my course in the Critical Studies MA at the Sandberg Instituut

My department (Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam) is offering a brand new MA in Digital Investigations, focusing on digital methods and OSINT relevant to journalism and human rights investigations. It looks very exciting! www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

it'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

It 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

Platforms as workhouses for the surplus population journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Each and every metanarrative is beautiful in its own unique way

from Technocrats Magazine (1933)

anybody have a favorite essay on Godard?

Have 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…

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

In 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”

Wrote 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...

Incredible 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...

just did proofs for something I submitted almost 2 years ago... feels good

What does it mean if I'm listening to "Beat Up Chanel$" every day?

many people seem really desperate for something to believe in

Sweden's going to have to change their political party names if they want me to follow their politics

Dutch-coded

For 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:

Not hearing so much about OpenAI stealing users’ mathematics research these days

Probably the stupidest thing an artificial intelligence could do if it wanted to survive forever would be to attempt to exterminate humanity

Maybe someone here wants to get braindrained to Sweden? academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

great article looking at an AI slop factory in China link.springer.com/article/10.1...

must 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"

if the hugging face hack sounds like a sci-fi story, that's because it is. literally!

Someone write the essay about how “intelligence” is bullshit but stupidity is real