Psychological destiny mirrors and instantiates the exchange principle of capital

Evidence

The category of immediacy connects both these immersive miseries and the apparent excess of ego to the technological transformations and economic contradictions we studied in “Circulation.” Immediacy’s stylized engrossments mimic our epidemic paths of suffering, its inundative presence swallows the horizon of no-future, its urgent extremities affright and awe, and its prized flow perpetuates the cult of “resilience” to which we are remaindered. Too late capitalism’s circulation-centricity expedites a historically contingent inflation of the image, and arguably, the subjective corollary is an inflation of the imaginary. An inner flood marked by a lack of symbolic constraint—an insufficiency of language (“no words”), a dearth of social ties, a reflective glass maze, overflowing oceanic feeling—casts the psychic style through which immediacy grips. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 82 (#expands, via linked claim)

Through exchange, economic process and economic values emerge simultaneously, because exchange is what sustains or produces the distance between subject and object which transmutes the subjective state of feeling into objective valuation. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Odysseus’s cunning mirrors the irrationality of early capitalist exchange; The myth of the wandering animal mirrors rather than opposes capital — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459; Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Immediacy is the subjective corollary of accelerated capital circulation #expands (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 82
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250