Immediacy offers a pharmakon-like escape from crisis that forecloses working through.

Evidence

Amid crisis, alienation, and stratification, immediacy feels right: urgent, engaging, homogenizing. But this is pharmakon: remedy and poison in one. Working through rather than working out would involve cognizing that it doesn’t have to be this way. It is too late at the same time as it is not too late. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 38

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Working through rather than working out’ sits against the reader’s framing of mediation as politically necessary.