Autofiction’s antifictional fervor is rationalized by a circulation-forward economic phase

Evidence

The category of immediacy situates these antifictional energies in conjunction with the emissive proclivities of a circulation-forward economic phase, with the obfuscation of symbolic code that underwrites digital interfaces, and with the regime of the imaginary that ecstatically charges “the voice of your own personality” (as Knausgaard put it). … The rampant crushing of mediation in twenty-first-century culture finds its most explicit rationalization in autofiction’s ardor, in a trajectory that less resembles appropriation than the hegemonization of lucid intransitivity. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 122

Categorization

• XREF: This is where she directly channels Jameson’s periodizing move: cultural form explained by economic phase. Judging her structural debt to Jameson lives or dies here.
• DEFINE: Defines immediacy’s key component: ‘lucid intransitivity’—uninterrupted, unmediated flow as the unifying term for the antifictional movement.