Mediation’s alternatives are scale, impersonality, and hold

Evidence

Scale extrapolates that which is readily present into relation with something of a different order, transcending the concretude of the body and the individual for an alternate level. Impersonality acknowledges conflicts and seeks possible middle grounds, deflecting the absorptions of auto-emanative charisma with a collectivizing, dislocated perspective—one which needn’t be as exclusive as helicopter cameras, since fictional omniscience and theoretical abstraction cost but little. Hold clogs circulation, keeping some reserve from exchange, or slowing down processing, or impeding flow, making palpable the work of relation. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 335

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Trio of countervailing aesthetic categories defined precisely — the constructive scheme that answers the reader’s goal of naming mediation’s actual features.
• SEED: An essay applying ‘scale, impersonality, hold’ to a contemporary work (e.g. a long-form series like Succession or a documentary) would concretize the defense of mediation.

Related

• Scale, impersonality, and hold each counteract a defining trait of immediacy. (similarity 0.88)
• Mediation generates collectivity which immediacy’s style forecloses. (similarity 0.81)
• Mediation’s residual forms still create impersonality and objectivity against privatizing subjectivism. (similarity 0.81)
• Contemporary cultural aesthetics are slackening mediation and representation in favor of presence (similarity 0.80)
• Mediation means recommitting to symbolic, organizational, and synthesizing forms against immediacy. (similarity 0.78)
• Working through psychic and social stuckness requires more mediation, not less (similarity 0.78)