Immediacy reduces discourse to self-evident presence while mediation demands deliberate construction

Evidence

For enhancing circulation, immediacy stylizes essences that automanifest, language that concretizes, images that denude, streams that surge, and dissolutionisms that blur. … By contrast, a style of a different sort, less bent on negating mediation, would offer production that must be undertaken, possibilities that require relay, discontinuities in coordination, long-rather than short-cuts when adumbration and even artifice better suit the matter, order processing without same-day-delivery guarantee. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crystalizes the book’s central axis: immediacy as denial of mediation, mediation as production/relay/long-cut.
• XREF: The ‘short-cuts vs long-cuts’ and ‘same-day-delivery’ framings extend the book’s running economic thesis about compressed capital circulation time. — connects to: A position built on denying mediation paradoxically produces direct immediacy and rigid opposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 802; Truncated mediation turns critical utterances into dismissible individual quirkiness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1105