Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation

Evidence

If taking an object as a given constitutes a mistake of an idealist stripe, then objects that insist upon their own givenness—their lack of mediation, their authenticity, their formlessness—must be equally suspicious. Art claiming its identity with reality doubly obfuscates the primacy of mediation, presenting a difficulty that perpetually concerned Adorno. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 255

Categorization

• XREF: This is the theoretical core the reader will deploy against immediacy’s claim that art should collapse into lived reality — connects to autofiction, the new sincerity, and the book’s key concept of style as self-cancelling. — connects to: The Cure’s art was grounded in inauthenticity as an existential condition — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1052; A culture stripped of surrealism renders banality as its cosmology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1346