Communization theory collapses both past and future distance into a presentist claim

Evidence

Philosopher Alberto Toscano helpfully diagnoses this immediatism in noting the reflexive antipolitics of “staking a claim to communism but refusing the politics of transition.” Enunciating revolutionary theory as the demarcation of the present’s distance from the past (the old forms of mediated organizing don’t apply) but, simultaneously, as the melting of the present’s distance from the future (communism is not a project but a way of being in the moment), communization theory, Noys notes, “insists on immediacy.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 324

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘immediatism’ in revolutionary theory as staking a claim to communism while refusing transition politics — a compressed definition of the whole movement.
• XREF: The collapse of past and future distance is the political version of the chapter’s aesthetic presentism — directly relevant to the reader’s aim of naming immediacy’s features.