Data’s self-evidence requires no interpretation, mirroring theory’s disavowal of argument.

Evidence

Everything is data. The discretized unit is immediately integrable, self-evident unto itself, and paramount for the quantum speed and scale of platform capitalism. Discretized data requires no interpretation, only accumulation. The withdrawal of argument and relinquishment of interpretation that animate intellectual empiricism belong as much to algorithmic culture as do the agglomerative listing and aphoristic enisling that supply contemporary theory’s syntax. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 305

Categorization

• XREF: Core to her thesis that compressed circulation time produces culture’s impatience with mediation; connects to her ‘Antitheory’ chapter which the reader wants to interrogate.
• DEFINE: Names the structural match between discretized platform data and the aphoristic/listing syntax of contemporary theory.