Compressed capital circulation time produces cultural impatience with mediation

Evidence

The colloquial connotation of immediacy as “urgency” underlines the temporal dimension of this style, a hurry-hurry that compresses time into a tingling present. Spatially, immediacy encloses while delivering everything close: the world at your fingertips; “Let’s go places.” The flexible psychology surfing these urgencies and proximities is self-possessed and transparent: “Speak your truth!” “Live your best life!” “You do you!”—the auto-actualization of human capital. Immanentist theology congeals this realm of ken in an unholy mix of instantaneity and eternity, presence identical to itself, the moment refreshed, Buddha at the gas pump on the mindfulness plane of continuity. Individuated epistemology (“Do your own research!”) ensues from alternative facts, horseshoe both-sidesism, faux news, and personal-pan propaganda. Ideological variants of immediacy include virulent opinionism, cults of charisma, nihilist absolutism, and ecstatic anarchy. Its politics eschew organizations and institutions in favor of organic horizontalism, aleatory uprisings, and local autonomy; its adherents refuse vehicles of power while enthusing the omnipresence of power, and rhapsodize the immutability of domination, exonerating inertia. And underlying all these compressions and expressivities is the economy of hurry and harry, same-day shipping and on-demand services, where the ease of one-click buying covers up a human hamster wheel, and innovative circulation pulls off a just-in-time deflection from the multi-decade crisis in capitalist production. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 23

Fictional writing has no value. A maxim for a disintermediated world. Circulation-forward too late capitalism has no time for dallying in divagations. … Negations, redactions, singularizations—these demediations alone circulate value. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 110

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the master inventory of immediacy’s sub-features — urgency, proximity, self-possession, immanence, anti-institutionalism — all in one paragraph, essential for naming the aesthetic features.
• XREF: Directly instances the Jameson line ‘the economics of late capitalism’ / ‘cultural logic’ framing — the compressed-circulation-time causal thesis is essentially a Jamesonian move (postmodernism as spaghetti western) redeployed for the present. — connects to: Time-space compression from flexible accumulation generates a crisis of representation in cultural forms — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2035; Cultural mediation once worked through latency and obscurity, now through speed. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 841
• SEED: The ‘anti-theory’ critique you’re building against Kornbluh could open from this paragraph: she asserts the causal chain boldface but never proves capital circulation specifically produces style — a gap worth interrogating.
• DEEPTHINKING: The whole argument is here in compressed form — every later chapter claim about streaming, autofiction, cringe TV hangs off this single causal thesis and its political refusal of organization.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 23; Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 110