In late capitalism cultural theory displaces tactical political questions

Evidence

In such a situation, within the United States itself, there is no tactical or political question which is not first and foremost theoretical, no form of action which is not inextricably entangled in the sticky cobwebs of the false and unreal culture itself, with its ideological mystification on every level. Not whether the street fighter or urban guerrilla can win against the weapons and technology of the modern state, but rather precisely where the street is in the superstate, and, indeed, whether the old-fashioned street as such still exists in the first place in that seamless web of marketing and automated production which makes up the new state: such are the theoretical problems of Marxism today, at least in what might be termed the overdeveloped countries. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This makeover of theory as concrete, fluid—in the mix—derives from well-meant reprove of impersonal abstraction, masculinist reserve, and rationalist systematicity. Moving in formation, however, the overcorrection has swerved, with immediacy virtuously and undialectically opposing a hypostasized sin of too much mediation. Immediacy theory thus clinches the trends in cultural production we have studied in arts and letters: the absorptive relationality of practice without medium, the enclosed voice of emanative antifiction, the delugent flow of apostrophic recursion, and the premium on planate exchange. In this concurrence, contemporary theory verifies rather than relativizes the mode of production. Immersive intensity transmits an instant message; it brooks no abstract mediations. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 249 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anglo-American empiricism blocks political connection-making by isolating individual facts; Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26; Immediacy theory mirrors rather than analyzes the cultural trends of late capitalism — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 249 (+4 more)

Related

• Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones (similarity 0.88)
• Immediacy theory mirrors rather than analyzes the cultural trends of late capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• Anglo-American empiricism blocks political connection-making by isolating individual facts (similarity 0.79)
• Capital’s dominance is the real message of every cultural product (similarity 0.79)
• Immediacy across culture is overdetermined by economic conditions, not endogenous to theory (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary theory has adopted the immediacy style it should critique (similarity 0.79)
• The economics of late capitalism preceded its cultural forms by roughly a decade. (similarity 0.79)
• Theory’s failure to analyze immediacy stems from theorists producing immediacy themselves (similarity 0.79)
• Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically (similarity 0.79)
• Immediacy supervenes on postmodernism’s capitalist dynamics compounded by millennium economics (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26
• Immediacy theory mirrors rather than analyzes the cultural trends of late capitalism #exemplifies (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 249
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #qualifies (0.80)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Political economy and cultural studies conceive of power in fundamentally different forms #complicates (0.75) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 29