Contemporary cultural aesthetics are slackening mediation and representation in favor of presence

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

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s core diagnosis: mediation as representation is slackening in favor of presence.