Contemporary aesthetics is slackening representation and dissolving medium
Evidence
In contemporary cultural aesthetics, there is something going on with mediation. The social activity of representation is slackening, loosing presence too much with us. Medium dissolves, extremes effulge, exposure streams. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 11
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Modern art renounces mediation in favor of directness and literalism. (similarity 0.83)
- Residual mediate art forms persist at the margins of contemporary aesthetics. (similarity 0.83)
- Compressed capitalist circulation makes culture value disintermediation as a style. (similarity 0.80)
- The boundedness of artforms is necessary to theorize social immediacies (similarity 0.80)
- Working through psychic and social stuckness requires more mediation, not less (similarity 0.80)
- Video as a medium has consolidated diverse forms into homogeneous flowing style (similarity 0.80)
- Theory and art must depart from context rather than dissolve into immediacy (similarity 0.80)
- Strikes across publishing and culture build a base for renewed representation (similarity 0.79)
- Art that claims identity with reality doubly obscures mediation (similarity 0.79)
- Immediacy theory mirrors rather than analyzes the cultural trends of late capitalism (similarity 0.79)
- Art trends unite in a compulsion to have done with mediation (similarity 0.79)
- Contemporary critical theory now reproduces rather than analyzes immediacy’s market logic (similarity 0.79)
- Cultural forms can both cement existing relations and reveal they are fabricated. (similarity 0.79)
- Mediation generates collectivity which immediacy’s style forecloses. (similarity 0.78)