Residual mediate art forms persist at the margins of contemporary aesthetics.

Evidence

Mediations remain residual and spring emergent, peripheral but powerful, waiting at the margins of contemporary aesthetics, in forms that activate older modes of representation or that confabulate new mediacies, like Colson Whitehead’s third-person novels or Edward Burtynsky’s impersonal photography. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Her chosen exemplars — Whitehead’s third-person, Burtynsky’s impersonal photography — give the reader concrete works to test the immediacy/mediation distinction against.