Capitalist speed and flow premiums directly inscribe themselves into literary style.

Evidence

Economic premiums on speed, flow, and auto-actualization inscribe themselves into literary style; immediacy writing’s anti-representational, antifictional centrifugality of charisma aestheticizes this capitalist base. But, if this all sounds like vulgar Marxism, pinpointing a cause for the privatization and demediation of fiction in the privatization and stalling of macroeconomic relations, we can granulate that causality by attending to more mundane and institutional levels; at the same time, we can also appreciate the array of effects of these causes by studying other significant trends activating immediacy in contemporary literary production. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 135

Categorization

• XREF: This is the book’s core causal thesis condensed; connects to the ‘Circulation’ chapter’s account of accelerated capital circulation as the economic cause of immediacy. — connects to: Style ideals of clarity now serve the commodity logic of fast reading. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 18
• SEED: The admission that this ‘sounds like vulgar Marxism’ invites the reader’s critique: could an essay probe where this base-superstructure mapping holds and where it overshoots?