Mediation’s residual forms still create impersonality and objectivity against privatizing subjectivism.

Evidence

Even in the present straits, this capacity for mediation spurs art and theory forms that continue to create impersonality against privatization, objectivity against subjectivity, speculation against phenomenality, formalization against formlessness. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 45

Categorization

• XREF: The four polarities (impersonality/privatization, objectivity/subjectivity, speculation/phenomenality, formalization/formlessness) are a compact schema worth holding against works she’ll examine in the Video and Antitheory chapters.
• QUESTION: I want to see each pole cashed out concretely in the conclusion’s examples — Whitehead’s third-person novels, Burtynsky’s impersonal photography.