Immediacy across culture is overdetermined by economic conditions, not endogenous to theory

Evidence

Immediacy as self-substantiation metabolizes many flights of late-twentieth-century theory: authentications of situated knowing, elevations of personal experience, suspicions of grand narratives, transpositions of politics into ethos, and promotion of autoethnography across the disciplines. At the same time, this metabolic process should not be received as an organic trajectory endogenous to theory, since it so overdetermined by the crush in parallel domains: in literature (autofiction, #OwnVoices, self-help, university writing pedagogy); in the “speak your truth” industrial complex (personal branding, confessionalism); in perspectival cinematography and the intimate ambient video stream; in the algorithmic base of i-tech (exponential information organized by binary oppositions of ones and zeros); and in the instantaneity of the just-in-time, on-demand circulation economy. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 257

Categorization

• XREF: This is her most directly Jamesonian move — parallel domains (literature, tech, economy) as a totality governed by capital’s circulation time; the reader’s core task of judging her structural debt to Jameson hinges on passages like this. — connects to: Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 410; Similar technologies in similar environments do not force similar cultural systems. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 106
• QUESTION: The list bundles #OwnVoices and self-help under the same ‘crush’ as just-in-time logistics — worth interrogating whether she elides genuinely different political projects in her totality claim.