Immediacy prioritizes circulation while mediation produces relations and difference

Evidence

Immediacy is instant; mediation dilates. … Immediacy is urgent; mediation displaces. … Immediacy confesses; mediation intermixes. … Drawing these conspicuous oppositions is an exercise in educing contradiction, including friction-freighting categories. There will be readers to whom immediacy remains balm, and those for whom the exhortation to mediate clangs of false opening. But perhaps a final contrast will inspire: immediacy is all about circulation. Mediation might, then, be conceived as production, though that production which distinguishes itself as for its own sake, means in themselves: making relations, making something different happen, making shit not the worst. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 373

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pulls together the book’s culminating definition of the two poles into aphoristic contrasts — useful as a single quotable synthesis.
• XREF: connects to: A position built on denying mediation paradoxically produces direct immediacy and rigid opposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 802; The problem of mediation links psychological, social, and economic levels — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 20