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/ -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
