Immediacy style reduces lived experience to dyadic binary data capture

Evidence

The imaginary’s one-to-one dyadic reflective paradigm for nonrelation shapes and is shaped by the algorithmic epistemes of the circulation economy, adhering the binarisms of social and cultural intercourse. In imaginary-flush immediacy style, everything flickers good or bad, relatable or hateable; the gray falls away. The two-dimensional images on screens seek to simulate the sensory immersiveness of off-screen experience, but they lack viscosity and depth of field; repetitive, mindless behavior like scrolling ensues in search of dopamine hits that mimic full sensory experience; observation of events via moving images virtually coincides with events themselves—whether we’re filming ourselves seeing a famous work of art in a museum or attending a protest, sharing viral video of police violence or fixating on hashtags for immanent transmissions from active-shooter situations. Images, clicks, dopamine hits, and their capture as data become the modalities in which we live out our self-presence. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 100

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘imaginary’ register of immediacy as binary, data-capture-prone, self-referential.