Effective political action depends on mediation, not immediate style.

Evidence

Autoemanation, flow, blur—these are not the modalities of knowledge or representation that work to produce deliberate signifiers, shared ideas, structured relations, nor are they lines in the sand of the drought zone. It is up to actions to produce the necessary mediations, and from there cultural style may follow, but actions themselves require mediation—for recognizable sustained effect rather than just undecidable entanglement, symbolic efficacy beyond imaginary feint, it takes conspicuously knitted chains of cause and effect, signifiers resounding, and collaborations exercising collective sovereignty. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 377

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Could serve as the closing rebuttal paragraph for the immediacy-as-narrative-metaphor piece, since it names exactly why the detour and the literal mediation of structure matter.
• XREF: connects to: Media-attention-seeking tactics did not change government war policy. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 77