Immediacy forms the cultural style of the unresolved accumulation crisis.

Evidence

The magnification of the circulation process impresses the express—everything emanates; everything is instant—and creates the conditions for immediacy. After the digital, we remain in the same historical phase of the accumulation crisis that defines postmodernism, but, through the severity and duration of secular stagnation, we take up a different relation to the very media of which that style might be composed: an obfuscation of mediation. Immediatized circulation has not delivered a resolution to the long-term crisis over the last fifty years, but neither has the law of the falling rate of profit delivered a social revolution. What has been delivered, instead, is immediacy as cultural style: demediation, immanentization, flow. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 77

Categorization

• XREF: The chapter’s closing synthesis names immediacy’s three constitutive features (demediation, immanentization, flow) and ties them to secular stagnation — the Jamesonian frame the reader must assess. — connects to: The 1847-8 crisis produced a cultural crisis of representation. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1648
• DEEPTHINKING: Immediacy as correlated with circulation-forward capitalism without resolving the underlying accumulation crisis — a dense theoretical positioning of style relative to economic base — warrants deep consideration.