Gavin Mueller
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Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam USian in NL Email: gavinmueller at gmail
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Humanities degrees are important because they create the kind of people I want to hang out with
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overt in the film. the house is targeted because it's the wealthiest family in the neighborhood. the film's humor is based on culkin's precociously bourgeois behavior even sans parents, and then he relishes in a baroque execution of the castle doctrine on working class burglars
'Home Alone' McCallister Family Was Top 1% in Wealth, Economists Say | Click to read more 👇
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everyone should know the script by now: digital technology "automates" jobs by splitting work between the user (in this case you were trained on self-checkouts) and outsourced hyperexploited labor in other countries
this is insane
cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines
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darwin to marx: i'm happy for you tho. or sorry that happened
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the stuff that the UK does that the world likes, and that actually make money -- university education, art, music -- is the stuff they are actively destroying because people with mortgages find them annoying
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Are they fully “China’s emissions” if they are for manufacturing commodities for US markets?
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he thinks "urban studies" means African American studies
Honestly, I have no idea why Mississippi taxpayers should pay $ to educate an urban studies or women’s studies major.
These programs are basically indoctrination factories.
How about nursing, managerial economics, mech engineering instead.
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I have just learned that Amsterdam has a "night mayor." This is the current one. His name is Freek.
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Amsterdam is already at “paving stone barricade” level
Ga eerlijk zijn, ik had niet gedacht dat ik dit tijdens mijn leven nog in Amsterdam zou zien.
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I found the paper where they invent the political compass, and yes, it was invented by libertarians to justify their ideology
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I teach in a new media studies university program and it's real. Young people have primarily used phones and apps, and new operating systems really try to prevent you from accessing the system's file structure (which is why I hate them)
Is this really happening? This seems totally unbelievable
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It's called "aufheben," Ton. It means "cancel" but like it also means "preserve." This guy Hegel said it does both at the same time after he saw Napoleon. Turns out if you do it now, you get to communism. Fucked up if you ask me
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when I'm making dinner and decide to do an extra vegetable dish
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i watched it a couple days ago and found myself saying "you couldn't make a movie with these class politics today"
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Some of you have never bought drugs in a park in Berlin and it shows
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oh you "don't make the rules"? my guy, you instantiate the rules via ritualized social practice, you are literally making and unmaking them all the time
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They dream of factories with no workers, universities with no students, a web with no users…
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we need more immigrant stories about all the people who came to the united states and were like brother ewwwwww
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when our children ask why we let the cities flood and the crops die, we will tell them about the good years of on-demand reruns and cheap car rides from the app-slaves
So much of my lifestyle in 2016 was funded by cheap VC money. I rode Uber across town for $4 and watched a million great shows on Netflix. Thanks, VCs. You gave me some memorable years. 💖
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Rather than fall back on liberal humanist calls to "resign" we should use the Feinstein moment as a reminder that "Senator" is not an individual but a network of actants -- advisors, lawyers, constituents -- cohering via affective bonds, including the ambivalent ones of care.
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the adroitness of modern manufacturing threw the parallel skilled production process of art-making into crisis at the precise moment that industrial total war delegitimated any pretence to progress by "western civilization." now quit whining and Contemplate The Urinal
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Zoom is such a powerful tool of the status quo
Columbia University has just announced that it will shift to a hybrid model for the rest of the semester
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come for the nakedly colonial epistemology, stay for the realisation that this fantasy continent of 100 billion slaves is actually millions of workers in formerly colonized places being exploited by core colonising countries
My mind was blown when I heard this earlier today..
"Imagine we discovered a new continent with 100 BILLION people on it, and they're all willing to work for free!
That's what's about to happen with
#AI
, so you'd better factor that into your plans."
@natfriedman
#Abundance360
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this is the reason behind the oft-observed fact that "young people don't know how to pirate." in fact, this was likely the goal of reorganising UX this way, keep you safely within the app/streaming paywalls
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they had this, it was called "camel cash"... god mckinsey must be the easiest job they make you do for 80 hours a week
@waltbogdanich
Here's a grab from a slide deck McKinsey prepared for Altria around 2016, showing a mock-up of an iphone app for a loyalty program for Marlboro cigarettes. Buy smokes, get little prizes like bottle openers. (3/x)
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influencing has undergone real subsumption
Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯
This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.
Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.
This is unreal
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Prestige tv series on Frankfurt School within 5 years, calling it now
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@T0Paine
white ethnic villains threatening the WASP bourgeois household... Chris Columbus will answer to a people's tribunal for his ideological crimes, a pity since he has a proletarian background
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incredible how little secondary literature remarks on what a sarcastic writer Marx is
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@PEWilliams_
Actually every time a rich person has an untimely death, someone does this post. This time it’s you! Enjoy your moment
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am I correct that CRT as the shambolic-but-nevertheless-consolidated emblem of BLM backlash was midwifed through the debate on the 1619 Project?
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every day tech execs obsess about what will happen if a computer decides to treat people as means to an end… buddy it’s literally your job to pay people a dollar an hour to watch beheadings all day so they don’t disrupt grandma’s “Every Democrat is a Pedo” meme consumption
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one of the better treatments for "impostor syndrome" is to read books that are not that good
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Jon Stewart is obsolete because Jonstewartism has generalized throughout US society
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surely anyone with even the most basic socialist sympathies would agree that the abysmal pay and working conditions in meat processing must be improved, even if this likely triples or quadruples the price, which would thereby incentivize reduced consumption
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the left needs cadre of radical psychoanalysts that can be deployed to prevent men from becoming reactionaries after a bad breakup
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degrowth is about banning shit, socialism is also about banning shit. less arguing over labels and more discussion about what are the coolest things to ban and how best to do it
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snipers on the roof, the logical endpoint of the donor model
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This is probably idiosyncratic but the most annoying thing to me about “technofeudalism” is the assumption that feudalism = highly centralized power, when it was the opposite
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sanders campaign was a substitute for actual strategic vision, bootstrapping rising radical sentiment to America's biggest spectacle, the presidential campaign. thus its merits and its limits, and the vacuum in its wake.
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as someone who reads "new materialism" for my job, what I appreciate about it isn't "rocks have agency" but its often sophisticated challenges to humanist notions of autonomous agency. personally i think marxism should also challenge the liberal subject
Andreas Malm critiques Object Oriented Ontology and New Materialism in this new interview on eco-socialism, Palestine, and more!
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Anthropologists are the test pilots of academia: the widest theoretical breadth, the most intense methods, extremely intricate arguments, and a completely fucked job market.
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If Marx were around today, he’d be into freedom, apple pie, baseball on a warm summer evening, kicking back and having a couple cold ones with the boys while playfully joshing about the events of the day. He’d be an American, through and through
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Prince used the alias “Karl Marx” when he was dating
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do NOT read these
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my kids will only study things that have long-term practical utility: philosophy, literary criticism, historical research, foreign languages, and how to install mods
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years
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at a party last night I met a guy who was in Greenpeace in the 90s... they did incredibly wild actions, including a 3-week hike to Chernobyl to occupy it. he's banned from a bunch of countries now. anyway, it's cool how we have no ability to preserve institutional memory of this
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draft of a new syllabus for a 4-week module on Marxist theory and technology... had to make some tough choices and may have to make further cuts, we'll see
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Yeah but think of how many forged term papers and garbage content farms this technology has created
So not only do they need copyrighted material for their technology to function, but energy demands are getting so high (think small country), they also need a nuclear fusion breakthrough to sustain it. The whole thing is such a joke.
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just buy some old electronics at a thrift store and then pretend that weed and gay marriage is illegal
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the prelude to this was firing, marginalizing, and intimidating in-house researchers, mostly women, on algorithmic harm, who documented actual and plausible abuses visited upon poor and PoC, before pivoting to white boy scifi "existential risk" scenarios
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You can also find this in cultural criticism and media studies 70s-00s. I think this is not necessarily a reason to abandon critiques of social media/smartphones but to recognize in them the continuity with and intensification of TV
saw Repo Man yesterday and Videodrome today and it’s wild the degree to which all the alienating harms now ascribed to social media were, with incredible accuracy and understanding, used in reference to television in the early 80’s
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Great new chapter of Twitter when you can simply say you’ve seen “reports of” something because 50 blue check hinduvta accounts posted it without attribution
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Even with the BBB bill dead, we can still look forward to the rich Keynesian policy fan fiction universe to continue on its network of blogs, a beautiful example of the participatory culture fostered through the internet
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Thinking about when Donna Haraway coined “Cthulhucene” and then was like “oh but not THAT Cthulhu”
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it’s possible that, had Elon taken an ethics class, he would have realized torturing monkeys is wrong, and not done it. But it’s possible he already knew that and did it anyway. A more effective alternative is that Elon is punished and forcibly barred from animal torture
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this is why they are trying to kill the humanities, they want us all to be like this, to have this STEMlord utilitarian lizard brain
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the barbershops in Amsterdam have all followed the American trend of having Sons-of-Anarchy-style branding, with skulls with greaser hair, beer, etc... but they don't understand the aesthetic and botch the details, like today my place was playing "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
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mastodon is a thousand petty fiefdoms ruled by whim rather than profit, squabbling through fractious "federated" alliances -- the true technofeudalism. say what you will about the value form, at least it leads to predictable constraints and tendencies!
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Gen Z has discovered the 50+ year old tradition of forcing yourself to become a connoisseur of commercial shit that mostly sucks that used to be popular… imo a pretty fun, cheap, and harmless hobby
A growing group among Generation Z is listening to nu metal bands for the first time. Bands like Deftones and Slipknot are resonating with younger fans, thanks to TikTok, the Y2K revival and, of course, enduring teenage angst.
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wow, turns out this social phenomena that emerged in the development of capitalist social relations helps to reproduce those relations! fucked up!
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This undermines the consensus reality that democracy relies upon
Tic Tacs are 94% sugar and yet claim to be sugar free…
The FDA says anything can be labeled sugar free if it has <0.5g of sugar, so each tic tac is 0.49g and they can claim they have 0 sugar on the label
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Curious about the content of these lessons… NL liquidated a much larger proportion of Jews than neighboring countries. a bit reductive but it’s weird that a popular right-wing policy here is to lecture people being discriminated against w the racist crimes of your grandparents
Mona Keijzer, often talked about as a potential prime minister, saying Dutch Muslims (and only Muslims) should have compulsory lessons on the holocaust
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that's only part of the story. there used to be widely accessible torrent sites -- you could even find torrent files via Google. those have been shut down by authorities, pirates have been sued and prosecuted, and platforms ban new pirate outlets or bury them via algorithm
It's wild how quickly everyone seems to have forgotten that the downswing in pirating media was initiated by making that media easily accessible.
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not long from now, the absence of a radical left strategy to swindle crypto traders out of millions of dollars through DeFi scams and use the money to seed new organizations will be judged a world-historical failure
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@futzo23
the "digital native" metaphor is correct but in the opposite way as intended: if you are naturalised to a particular environment, you take it for granted and do not know how it really works
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in japan they combine this tech with vtubing to get disabled people back into the workforce in the guise of friendly anime avatars
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Retooled my Marxist theory seminar syllabus to focus on contemporary work on the climate crisis -- here's my first crack
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hustlegrindset entrepreneurs, tradwives, crypto bros... all individualized flights from wage labor. notably they all advertise the large amount of work this escape requires...
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This admin is so cooked
Just learned that
@Columbia
has locked down every building on campus (deactivated swipe access) and that faculty wishing to visit their offices today require a campus police escort to gain access.
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Germany’s approach to antisemitism is to see it as an alien influence brought from without that threatens to corrupt the pure German soul, and thus its nefarious bearers must be reduced to bare life and expelled… lessons have not been learned
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the problem with "long" decades and centuries? they assume continuity. we need to get a little wilder with periodization, start claiming that 1998 no longer belongs in the 1990s even though 1997 and 1999 do
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“What if an AI figures out a way to” let me stop you right there, you’ve already figured it out, it’s called “global labor arbitrage,” you’ve set up clickwork farms in literal refugee camps
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anybody build hospital capacity in the past two years or nah
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I love literary studies approaches that get really granular, like "we know Lenin was reading this particular copy of Hegel's Logic and here are his margin notes." In the future it'll be like "so they had these 15 browser tabs open, but half of those were never read..."
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My son has been fasting at school because his best bud is Muslim 😭
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the best way to study conspiracies is learn about some evil weird shit the CIA or FBI did 50-70 years ago, get a lot of important facts wrong, and then workshop with heroin addicts the best way to project it on to whatever news story is happening that day
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@thekafkadude
It’s actually just an individualist atomized candy coating with a violently conformist and authoritarian creamy center
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hoarding is bad capitalism -- you need to deploy your money to accumulate more capital, M-C-M'. Romantic capitalism would mean putting your lover on the market so that they might come back to you with a higher value (and a few more tricks up their sleeve)
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some people are like "well socialism is really about freedom." and that's true: the freedom to ban annoying shit so it stops ruining everyone's lives. so let's ban it up
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there is no organized left in the US to arm. there is no serious revolutionary movement that currently exists. it's just individuals buying guns to irrationally address their own anxieties, the gun manufacturers' chief marketing strategy for decades
we don’t have more mass shooters now because there was suddenly more guns, we have them because fascism has been growing and recruiting and getting bolder for the last three decades.
we are beyond gun control fixing this. the left needs to arm itself in turn
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I don't know why anyone would read an opinion columnist at this point. I can get smarter, dumber, weirder, and funnier opinions on this website at 10x the speed
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when in doubt, you can always critique Hardt & Negri, no one will get mad at you
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here is my extensive feedback on your first draft's structure, conceptualisation, method, and argument. I look forward to seeing how you incorporate this in the final draft.
STUDENT: thank you. I have now indented my paragraphs. e n j o y
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@_MichaelOswell_
he is a poet and has been performing in the local punk and squatting scene since a young age. He is also a political scientist, activist and organizer of parties and cultural events. [10]
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Mike Davis is the author I recommend when people ask about getting into marxism… i say “he wrote on everything, just find the topic most interesting to you, you can’t go wrong”
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We need a total transformation of the world in a way that will not inconvenience anyone in the slightest
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it turns out when you confront "the misinformed" with correct information backed up by evidence, they still don't believe it! we need an approach to how people integrate empirical reality into frameworks of meaning determined by existing social forms, an "idea-ology" if you will
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Guys I have to learn this language for real
We hebben een serieus probleem met de politieke ontwikkelingen mbt de dwangwet en ik hoop dat dat de komende dagen kan worden opgelost.
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this is the fun part of a crisis, when the rich people are panicking. then after a few days, they calm down, call up their politicians, and figure out how to use the state to make everyone else eat it
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