Immediacy’s temporality is a present stripped of any future.

Evidence

Time-space compression is constitutive of postmodernity in David Harvey’s account, and similarly, liquidity is constitutive of modernity for Zygmunt Bauman. See David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1990), and Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2000). Lauren Berlant, in Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011) describes the historical sense of the present as “affectively … immanence, emanation, atmosphere, emergence” (6). Immediacy’s temporality might thus be understood as this presence without future. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 387

Time-space compression is constitutive of postmodernity in David Harvey’s account, and similarly, liquidity is constitutive of modernity for Zygmunt Bauman. … Immediacy’s temporality might thus be understood as this presence without future. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Directly invokes Harvey and Bauman, but the real touchstone is Jameson’s periodizing of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism — central to the reader’s task of judging Kornbluh’s structural debt. — connects to: The radical event must be detached from any relation to the future — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 123
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that immediacy = ‘presence without future’ compresses a whole political diagnosis: a culture that cannot imagine a future is one foreclosing change itself.
• QUESTION: Is ‘presence without future’ a faithful gloss of Berlant’s ‘affective present,’ or a flattening that a fight with the Antitheory chapter would complicate?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 387