Contemporary critical theory now reproduces rather than analyzes immediacy’s market logic

Evidence

Immediacy theory thus clinches the trends in cultural production we have studied in arts and letters: the absorptive relationality of practice without medium, the enclosed voice of emanative antifiction, the delugent flow of apostrophic recursion, and the premium on planate exchange. In this concurrence, contemporary theory verifies rather than relativizes the mode of production. Immersive intensity transmits an instant message; it brooks no abstract mediations. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 249

Categorization

• XREF: Lines up against her stated fight with the Antitheory chapter — immediacy theory is itself a product of the immediacy style it should critique. — connects to: Politically engaged literary theory applies a market model of eclectic consumption — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 285