Re: <nettime> Farewell to World Order

[Brian Holmes via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

It's good to hear from you Sean.

Yes, I think that people should boycott the USA.

We who live here, however, have neglected our responsibilities too long. We
have to resist and ultimately defeat this monstrosity....

It is all going so fast, it makes you sick to your stomach. Today's murder
of a 37 year-old nurse, the lies and obscene justifications, the danger
faced by the people on the streets.... This is a time when the blur of
deliberate media overload combines precisely and willfully with issues of
life and death. It has been going on since the Ukraine war began. Now these
wars are coming home to their structural source.

solidarity, Brian

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM Sean Cubitt via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> many thanks for this Brian, as ever incisive and insightful. The news
> since includes draft dodger Corporal Bone Spurs accusing soldiers of
> cowardice, and withdrawing military support  from South Korea - which will
> undoubtedly please Xi who must be obeyed. Putin likewise clearly delighted
> at the shattering of the western alliance (after disbursing some major
> bribes and campaign funding to get the UK out of Europe that shouldn’t be a
> surprise). Someone pointed out that he and Netanyahu couldn’t attend the
> launch of The Don’s alternative UN because they would have been arrested as
> war criminals at Davos airport.  Oh yeah, and the terrifying winter storms
> have no connection to climate change (oddly nor did the summer wildfires or
> the retreating polar ice that makes Greenland a tactical prize). The
> profound racism, the manifest corruption and devotion to Big Oil are
> business as usual, if more shameless than past domestic leaders, but
> assaults on institutions and citizens on this scale seems to an outsider
> relatively new.
>
> Sharing this so you don’t feel you’re shouting in a bucket, and to make
> damn sure I won’t visit the USA as long as the Big Orange is playing Louis
> XIV in his kitsch ballroom
>
> seán
>
> Seán Cubitt
> Honorary Professorial Fellow
> School of Culture and Communication
> University of Melbourne
>
> Latest book: Good (aesthetic politics 2):
> https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/good/
>
>
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