Americans 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
Gavin Mueller
@gavinmueller.bsky.social
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.
Everyone wonders what gift to give to the man who has everything, but what about the man who has nothing (my brother)
The Emily Wilson translation is completely sold out in Amsterdam as far as I can tell
main thing holding me back from seeing The Odyssey besides lack of time is Matt fucking Damon... every time I see a screenshot, oof
Neoliberalism 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
Love to see the eldergays at Pride, often they have the most elaborate get-ups
perfect amsterdam day where I did like 90 minutes of work, went to my kids' theater performance and then went to the art museum with a colleague to check out the "manosphere" exhibition and ended with a beer at Cafe Brecht
the Great Books programs don't even assign whole books harpers.org/archive/2026...
Republican Machines, by Ann Manov
Can the GOP save the humanities?
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Report on the Luddite scene (!) on NYC www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
nplusonemag.com
tentative syllabus for my marxist theory course in the fall
Enjoyed this, "populists of choice" vs "populists of necessity" is useful, as is the observation that populism was leveraged not to efface class politics but in an attempt to reassert them www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Left populism after left populism
Months after the death of Ernesto Laclau in 2014, the ‘post-Marxist’ theory he developed with Chantal Mouffe was being cited as a blueprint by so-called ‘left populist’ electoral projects across th...
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Best translation of Adorno & Horkheimer's Culture Industry essay (and explain your answer)?
Suspect the building my kids’ theater camp is in is a squat. first clue: giant banner that said “Autonomie”
Unprecedented interaction where someone responded to my Dutch in English and I got them to switch back to Dutch through sheer persistence and excellent pronunciation
have to say I am increasingly comfortable asking a chatbot questions whose answer requires the synthesis of 2-3 wikipedia articles
I avoid the words "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" with my kids, preferring the gender-neutral term "special sweety"
last day of Verso's 40% sale on their tech books (including mine!) www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
Announcing: the Verso Books Tech Sale
Through the end of the month, take 40% off select titles on tech, AI, and automation. Ebooks site-wide are 60% off.
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new open-access edition of Vectoral Agents, on the tension between agential AI and agency, has dropped networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
Institute of Network Cultures | Vectoral Agents 2: Are You Agentic Enough?
networkcultures.org
After an exhausting/exhaustive trip through Estonia I am looking forward to the Digital Methods Summer School starting tomorrow… first time leading a project, and first time coordinating a methods tutorial, so a bit intimidating as well!
gotta say, watching people going through midlife crises in real time via social media really sucks!
My children have spuriously decided to root for Germany over Curaçao
Nothing has made my kids laugh like my impression of “Dutch Gromit”
Trying to get started on my work, but keep noticing how much enjoyment the Others are having… kinda seems like it might even be at my expense
come work with me! great early career position in a collegial and collaborative environment (plus you can bike to work)
Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 2mo agoJob here of interest: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
William Z. Foster, chaiman of the Communist Party USA, thought that the post-revolutionary capital of the United Soviet States of America should be Chicago
