Immediacy’s pragmatic urgency is fused to the disintermediation that drives ecocide

Evidence

Crushing mediation into direct messaging, authentic affect, and emanative intensity seems like a savvy choice in devastatingly urgent times: everything is a burning catastrophe; there’s no time for art; magnetize connection with confession and exposure, right quick! But since this logic of getting down to business fuses to the circulatory imperatives of disintermediation—the very tendencies which have accelerated ecocide and immiseration—there must be other sources for aesthetic value in our time. Imaginative indirectness, speculative adumbration, collective collocation, and extra-ordinary, counterintuitive ideas are also tools for survival. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 333

Categorization

• XREF: Recapitulates her core thesis — compressed/circulatory capitalism demands culture drop mediation — and closes the hermeneutic loop of the whole book.
• ADDENDUM: Could extend the reader’s defense of mediation as politically necessary: immediacy’s logic here is shown to fuse with the very circulatory economics causing catastrophe.