Equating separate institutions reduces political critique to indistinction and nihilism.

Evidence

The leveling of distinctions characteristic of immediacy theory often broaches a dissolutionist nihilism that absolutizes and dematerializes states, laws, and power relations, and abnegates alternative formations or alternative affordances of political-institutional forms. When that kind of argumentation prevails, its ambition is indistinction: harm-seeking laser vision sees particular injustices impugn the notion of justice; turtles all the way down. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s project of defending mediation: this is the theoretical core of her argument against conflating distinct institutions, which parallels her defense of formal mediation in aesthetics.