Trump bedankt NAVO-chef Rutte voor 'enorme' steun - zou hij altijd al geambieerd hebben om toe te treden tot dat illustere groepje internationale oorlogscriminelen? 💞
Daniël de Zeeuw
@ddzeeuw.bsky.social
History repeats itself, just now with smartphones Ass. Prof. Digital Media Culture, University of Amsterdam
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...
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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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...
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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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.)
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…
Medeplichtigheid met genocide, oke, maar corruptie bij aanbesteding?? nee dat kan echt niet ... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
‘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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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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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
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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👉 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
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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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:
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!
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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Good old, Sweet 2016... First slide of the second iteration of my Media & War seminar at UvA!
'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"
Zo werd de energietransitie gebruikt om klimaatbeleid te saboteren | VPRO Tegenlicht
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
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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
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!
"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...
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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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-...
Eddington | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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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?...
The New Aesthetics of Fascism
YouTube video by Ben Hoerman
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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
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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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.
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...
Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab
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Amsterdam art hipsters talking about Article 5 these days
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
The logical endpoint of 21st-century America
Charlie Kirk and what comes next
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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...
Nick Land Explains the Numogram
YouTube video by The Dangerous Maybe
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