Naming immediacy as a totalizing category makes mediatory alternatives visible

Evidence

The extreme opposition of Kardashian cleavage and Burtynsky chasms is itself an act of frictive intercession, an acknowledgment of drag amid the flow of hegemonic style. The very point of proposing a totalizing category like immediacy is to delimit the dominant formation so that alternatives come into the light. Mediation shadows this book as the negative space of immediacy’s disallowed and disavowed, the outmoded and the uncool. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 333

Categorization

• XREF: Her totalizing-category defensive move mirrors Jameson’s method of naming the dominant in ‘Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ — the very structural debt the reader wants to judge.