Antifiction’s rejection of representation also rejects the collective agency fiction enables

Evidence

Immediacy deletes fictionality: everything is real, everything is uncut, “fictional writing has no value.” Pronouns: “I,” “me,” “mine.” It thus negatively imprints the capacities of fiction we can contrarily esteem: holding impersonality at scale, pronouns “who,” “they,” “we.” … Antifictions in the now insist that there’s no time for art, no budget for inauthenticity, no capacity for possibility—and at their very most compelling they sell this diminution as strategy for life in the futureless hellscape: it’s too late for mediation. Here’s a starkness otherwise: without thick representation, mental exertion, and symbolic functions, we doom our common efforts to intervene. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 338

Categorization

• XREF: The futureless-hellscape framing directly engages Jameson’s ‘late capitalism’ theses and her own economic argument that compressed circulation produces cultural impatience.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that discarding mediation ‘dooms our common efforts to intervene’ — representation as prerequisite for collective politics — is a dense, paradigm-level defense connecting aesthetics to political agency.