A mediated style prioritizes relay, discontinuity, and withheld payoff over immediacy.

Evidence

For enhancing circulation, immediacy stylizes essences that automanifest, language that concretizes, images that denude, streams that surge, and dissolutionisms that blur. The ensuing continuities, intensities, and expresses cradle the allure of that style. By contrast, a style of a different sort, less bent on negating mediation, would offer production that must be undertaken, possibilities that require relay, discontinuities in coordination, long-rather than short-cuts when adumbration and even artifice better suit the matter, order processing without same-day-delivery guarantee. In quest of that other style, this mediation against immediacy, this book synthesizes at saucy scale, speaks impersonally without “I,” and composes prose that holds off intuition and holds out interpretation. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: Polarizes the two aesthetics in concrete stylistic terms — immediacy’s auto-manifest essences and surging streams versus the other style’s provisional relay and held-off closure.
• XREF: The same-day-delivery metaphor returns the argument to her economic thesis — circulation time as the engine of the immediacy style.