Badiou links the passion for immediacy to twentieth-century violence

Evidence

Some critical discourse about neorealism is not celebratory; the philosopher Alain Badiou, for instance, cautions that the “passion for the real,” an obsession with “what is immediately practicable, here and now” intensifies over the course of the twentieth century and lurks behind great acts of violence. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Direct theoretical support for the reader’s defense of mediation — Badiou’s ‘passion for the real’ connects immediacy-as-style to political danger.