A normative ‘should’ breaks with immediacy’s present toward collective flourishing

Evidence

Project-based theorizing is a practice-driven set of ideas rooted in the exigencies of omnicrisis but unrepentantly scaling up to the level of thought the situation demands and boldly formulating positive representations as spurs to action. A “should” activates a future-thinking, a break with the immanence of immediacy’s present toward the well-being and flourishing of the majority. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 365

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines project-based theorizing against immediacy’s immanent present.
• XREF: This adversarial framing of normative futurity echoes Jameson’s dialectical thinking and the reader’s critique plan for the Antitheory chapter. — connects to: The positive-normative split is a vehicle for exporting disciplinary values — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 582