Posts by Juha van ’t Zelfde
I sincerely hope these feelings cross over from musical to political vanguards vesseluk.bandcamp.com/album/queen-...
Covco, James Massiah, Kuedo, Lee Gamble, DJ Lycox, Suuto, Aardvarck, Ase Manual, Nkisi, Why Be, Bambii, Rosa Pistola, Hudson Mohawke and Lotic are some ot the best DJs I have experienced in the past decade.
also happy I finally wrote this down:
”I am a feelings-first teacher: instead of giving students a reading list, a syllabus and homework to prepare for the course, we watch videos together for the first hour.”
Sometimes we just listen to music. Whatever makes feelings happen. Then the rest.
remember when it was important to feel things… we need you and Tyshawn back at the Blmhuis asap. We need te experience feelings we forget we could have.
i did not know!!!! i will throw money at this!!!
Timo Arnall made me listen to Viral Radio at @resonancefm.bsky.social from 2016 and it is a healing time capsule my temporally-unmoored mind needed right now www.mixcloud.com/resonanceext...
to be precise and more generous: your book helps us understand joy as increased capacity. Students can skip Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari, and find recognition in your book. For many of them, joy is made collectively in club culture, mutual aid, and study. So you see how your book is at place?
a student favourite!
Updated the reading list
We need to talk about capitalism in art education because we need to talk about capitalism in art. This course is an attempt to create a clearing where we can feel, think, and work through the challenges ahead together. goodprax.is/desire/decap...
Wrote about the course Postcapitalism that I teach at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, and how I teach feelings-first goodprax.is/desire/decap...
2026 should have been the year the Progress Bar reunion would have been cancelled :(
Just as more conviviality, we need more opacity and play in everything we do.
All artists were listed as ANONYMOUS. Laurel Halo named it one of the best events she performed at in 2014. Others who played here were a.o. Lee Gamble, Blue Daisy, Minor Science, and Logos. affinitygroup.nl/anonymous-1
Most people don't know that the best Progress Bar (2015–2020) poster @michaeloswell.studio ever made was in fact a video for its prequel ANONYMOUS (2014) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSmG...
It just dawned on me that @sebchan.bsky.social is visiting me in May in what is now a three-decade conversation on liberation technologies, free association and DJ culture. It is only fitting we will do a road trip to the 1920s colonial radio transmitter Radio Kootwijk near our new home in Arnhem.
This remains an Ivan Illich fan account
We need more conviviality in everything we do.
Our new borrowed landscape
… this came after teaching Degrowth, as part of my Postcapitalism course, and joining the students in expression what their practice hopes to do. “Collective joy as the rehearsal of freedom,” is what I hope my work results in, whether it is in a club, a classroom, or a garden.
Just suggested someone to use Malatesta’s ‘At The Cafe’ for a work on restoring faith in democracy and freedom, and now I am in a cafe waiting for anyone to talk politics with me…
I always thought it was a transmission from Detroit, but it was actually from San Francisco, hosting many legendary artists from Detroit, from UR to Alton Milter.
One of the highlights of the early internet for me was the Beta Lounge, a radio station broadcasting every DJ and producer in Detroit at the Motor Lounge from 1996 onwards in RealAudio. I rememberI being obsessed by it and feeling like I had access to a secret transmission betalounge.com/archive/
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune #1)
and instead of taking pictures when astronauts saw something, a boring liberal voice would urge them to say something
A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
Iranian citizens were martyred.” 🔹 “Since the main element in designing and tracking assassination targets are American ICT and AI companies, in response to these crimes, from now on the main and effective institutions involved in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets.” 🔹 “We advise the employees of these institutions to immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives. Also, residents of areas around these terrorist companies in all countries of the region, within a one-kilometer radius, should leave their homes and workplaces and seek safe places.” 🔹 “Companies actively involved in terrorist designs will be subject to retaliatory action for every assassination.” 🔶 The list of these companies is announced as follows: Cisco HP Intel Oracle Microsoft Apple Google Meta
Cisco HP Intel Oracle Microsoft Apple Google Meta IBM Dell Palantir Nvidia J.P. Morgan Tesla GE (General Electric) Spire Solutions G42 Boeing 🔹”For every assassination in Iran, these companies must expect the destruction of their related units, starting at 8:00 PM on Wednesday, April 1 (Tehran time).”
🔺 IRGC: From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed
🔹 The IRGC warns the U.S.: “Our repeated warnings about the necessity to stop terrorist operations were ignored, and today, following your terrorist attacks and those of your Israeli allies, several Iranian...
My garden is a sound system