Cultural theorists themselves have succumbed to the immediacy style

Evidence

In the history of philosophy, in work from Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Adorno, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and others, “mediation” evokes the social process of making representation, connections, and meaning—which often reveals that the merely evident or intransitively existent does not already make sense. Immediacy style short-circuits and preempts this social process, swelling with self-identical thisness. Its reign in culture has evaded critical analysis because of its obvious appeal, but also because cultural theorists have succumbed to its intoxications. Across a wide variety of disciplines, theorists propagate the style in both form and content, denouncing abstraction while enthusing concretudes, writing in conspicuously “postcritical” modes like acafandom and autotheory to extol entanglement, the body, and tautological haecceity. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 25

Categorization

• XREF: She rebuts the same ‘postcritical turn’ that Rita Felski champions — this is the seam to pick at in your Antitheory fight.
• SEED: The meta-turn — theory itself modeling the ‘immediacy’ it should critique — is a strong essay angle: the academy’s autotheory as a symptom of consumption-time compression.
• QUESTION: Is she right that critique has been abandoned for entanglement, or is ‘postcritique’ itself a strawman she collapses into immediacy? Worth checking against actual Felski/Latour texts.