Re: <nettime> Farewell to World Order - and stablecoin

[Sean Cubitt via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

now the brownshirts are all over Minnesota and unafraid of two-year-olds and cameras. The nepo-Don’s u-turns all seem suspiciously responsive to market responses to his more ludicrous adventures in rhodomontade:  but lest that sound like he cares about the wellbeing of the US economy, he has a direct stake through his already immense holdings in stablecoin.

To an old leftie, the whole blockchain phenomenon looks like a scam; with various large-scale dealers in arms, drugs and illicit money the major beneficiaries. Perhaps the nettime hive mind has better insights. The world order is surely political (and military) but it hasn’t stopped being economic. We all look forward to the mid-terms, but is it the case that Trump seeks to maximise his capital holdings while in office (to ensure dynastic succession?) as much as he wants his neo-fascist agenda - and elections are only a small part of the strategy?

Seán

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:56:15 -0600
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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 <
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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

se?n

Se?n 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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