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Dr. G.C. (Gavin) Mueller

Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 9
Postal address
  • Postbus 94550
    1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2023

    • Tuters, M. D., & Mueller, G. C. (2023). Revolution by Other Memes: Speculative Imaginaries & the Subculturalization of Politics on r/PoliticalCompassMemes. Manuscript submitted for publication.

    2022

    • Mueller, G. C. (2022). The Full Automation Fallacy. In Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life

    2021

    2023

    • Mueller, G. C. (2023). Luddites of Hollywood. The Atlantic.
    • Mueller, G. C. (2023). Workers’ Movements or Tantrums Against Technology? New York Times.

    2021

    • Mueller, G. C. (2021). Breaking Things At Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job. Verso.
    • Mueller, G. C. (2021). Big Tech and COVID-19: How to humanise the gig economy. Thompson Reuters Foundation.

    Media appearance

    • Mueller, G. (02-11-2023). Breaking Things at Work: A Conversation with Gavin Mueller [Web] Ethics in Action Podcast. Breaking Things at Work: A Conversation with Gavin Mueller. https://ethics.podbean.com/e/breaking-things-at-work-a-conversation-with-gavin-mueller/
    • Mueller, G. (30-10-2023). The Right to Work [Web] Ned Ludd Radio Hour. The Right to Work. https://nickfthilton.medium.com/introducing-the-ned-ludd-radio-hour-fce448eb71e1
    • Mueller, G. (04-10-2023). Why Hollywood strikes may signal the start of a larger reckoning with A.I. [Television] CNN. Why Hollywood strikes may signal the start of a larger reckoning with A.I..
    • Mueller, G. (03-10-2023). AI Interview: Gavin Mueller, media studies professor [Print] Computer Weekly. AI interview: Gavin Mueller, media studies professor. https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/AI-interview-Gavin-Mueller-media-studies-professor
    • Mueller, G. (25-09-2023). Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike [Television] CNN. Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike.
    • Mueller, G. (20-09-2023). De stille exodus [Print] De Groene Amsterdammer. De stille exodus.
    • Mueller, G. (04-09-2023). Hollywood writers' strike extends into U.S. Labor Day [Television] CNN. Hollywood writers' strike extends into U.S. Labor Day.
    • Mueller, G. (21-08-2023). Radical or relevant? How the Luddites can help us relate to today’s technology. [Radio] The Colin McEnroe Show. Radical or relevant? How the Luddites can help us relate to today’s technology..
    • Mueller, G. (26-06-2023). Will there be a Hollywood ending? Why the writers are on strike [Web] Reasons to Be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd. Will there be a Hollywood ending? Why the writers are on strike.
    • Mueller, G. (27-02-2023). Young Guru Expresses Concern Over AI-Generated Kendrick Lamar Voice [Web] Complex. Young Guru Expresses Concern Over AI-Generated Kendrick Lamar Voice. https://www.complex.com/music/a/backwoodsaltar/young-guru-ai-kendrick-lamar
    • Mueller, G. (03-01-2023). Breaking Things at Work [Web] Upstream Podcast. Breaking Things at Work. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/breaking-things-at-work-with-gavin-mueller-in-conversation/id1082594532?i=1000591960683
    • Mueller, G. (20-12-2022). ‘My boss is spying on me’: The rise in companies recording employees’ every move – and what that means for you [Web] INews. ‘My boss is spying on me’: The rise in companies recording employees’ every move – and what that means for you. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/boss-spying-on-me-rise-companies-recording-employees-every-move-2037135
    • Mueller, G. (20-04-2022). Breaking Things at Work [Web] New Books Network Podcast. Breaking Things at Work.
    • Mueller, G. (10-12-2021). On the Media [Radio] WNYC. Lessons From the Luddites.
    • Mueller, G. (22-10-2021). De luddieten sloegen weefmachines kort en klein. Hun nazaten richten zich op Facebook, Uber en Gorillas [Print] De Correspondent. De luddieten sloegen weefmachines kort en klein. Hun nazaten richten zich op Facebook, Uber en Gorillas.
    • Mueller, G. (02-06-2021). Thinking Allowed [Radio] BBC. Coal-Mining & Luddism.
    • Mueller, G. (17-04-2021). VPRO Tegenlicht [Web] VPRO. Wat is er gebeurd met de droom van de post-work future?.
    • Mueller, G. (26-03-2021). Novara FM [Radio] Novara FM. Hackers, Luddites, Saboteurs.
    • Mueller, G. (03-02-2021). Episode 109 [Web] Politics, Theory, Other. Why the Luddites Were Right.

    Talk / presentation

    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (29-10-2023). Luddism: Autonomy and Sabotage, Marx-Herbstschule 16, Berlin.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (27-9-2023). Digital Political Subcultures and Political Compass Memes, Media, Film & Communication Programme research seminar, Otago.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (29-8-2023). AI and the Writer, Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (15-3-2023). Technofeudalism: A Marxist Critique and a Critique of Marxism, Global Governance Beyond Neoliberalism, Aarhus.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (13-11-2022). Breaking Things at Work, Biennale Tecnologia, Turin.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (10-9-2022). Rabbio Contro La Macchina, Festivaletteratura, Mantova.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (10-5-2022). Cultures of 21st Century Socialism in the United States: Histories, Ideologies, Aesthetics, NICA Research Symposium.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (28-4-2022). Platformisation as Subsumption; Or What Hackers Can Learn From Luddites, Tilburg University.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (23-3-2022). Resisting Algorithms: From Taylorism to Work-From-Home, Imagine! Belfast.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (17-3-2022). Control and Resistance in the New Work-From-Home Normal, De Balie.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (10-2-2022). An Introduction to Neo-Luddism, Neo-Luddite Research Seminar.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (3-12-2021). Platformisation as Subsumption; or, What Hackers Can Learn from the Luddites, Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (11-11-2021). I Didn't Go In To Work Today...I Don't Think I'll Go In Tomorrow, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (27-10-2021). Were the Luddites Right?, Decolonising the Faculty of Environment and Technology Seminar Series, University of West England.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (7-10-2021). Breaking Things at Work, CAMRI Research Seminar.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (3-4-2021). Technology, Automation, and Socialist Strategy, Science & Society Online Speaker Series.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (18-3-2021). Breaking Things At Work, Cultural Studies Colloquium, George Mason University.
    • Mueller, G. (speaker) (4-2-2021). Luddism and Refusal: Technology as a Site of Struggle, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University.

    Others

    • Mueller, G. (participant) (18-10-2023 - 21-10-2023). Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2023, Philadelphia. Presentation: Revolution by Other Memes: Online Subcultures, Modular Ideology, and the Political Compass (with Lucia Bainotti and Marc Tuters) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Mueller, G. (other) (3-12-2022 - 23-4-2023). Les émulateurs (other).
    • Mueller, G. (participant) (10-2-2022 - 10-6-2022). Neo-Luddite Research Seminar. NICA Seminar (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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