Immediacy theory replaces collective critique and shared slogans with atomized individual action

Evidence

In opposition to the syntheses of critique, by which groups agree on what is bad (structural racism, say), and what is to be done (defunding the police, say), and with which common signifiers to constitute collectives (“Black Lives Matter,” say), praxis here infinitizes minute actions of irreducible individuals, permanently deferring integration. Rather than compose demands or slogans or visions of what would be less bad for more people “in universal form” (freedom from fear of extrajudicial death, say), praxis extrudes “spaces where all can be heard,” where perpetual presence abounds. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 244

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the reader’s core thesis — immediacy as the erosion of mediation — and to Jameson’s account of how late capitalism forecloses collective political imagination. — connects to: Self-immolation protests succeed or fail depending on social structure and place — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 187; Individualized therapy depoliticized the collective consciousness-raising of 1970s movements. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1949