A structured collectivity can transcend individual finitude without mystical infinity

Evidence

For literary mediation, the unanswerable question “Who is speaking?” extrudes beyond proprietary subjectivity or charismatic voice to a wide-eyed, roving, unlived experience. Each of us are finite, but that doesn’t mean legitimate massings can only grope after infinity, under the sign of algorithmic theology; a collectivity that avows its own structuring remains finite while transcending the register of the one. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 337

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense normative claim: collective thought need not choose between the finite proprietary ‘one’ and infinite algorithmic theology — mediation offers a third term. Knots together fiction, politics, and theology in one image.
• XREF: The phrase ‘algorithmic theology’ resonates with the broader critical-theory critique of tech-immediacy (cf. the Frankfurt School treatment of mythic/rationalist thinking) and with the reader’s structural-Jameson comparison. — connects to: Cultic self-gathering makes the move to pure speculative thought possible