Scale, impersonality, and hold each counteract a defining trait of immediacy.
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
- DEFINE: Names the positive aesthetic counter-vocabulary: scale against immanence, impersonality against presence, hold against flow.
- XREF: The scale/impersonality/hold triad is the direct mirror of immanence/presence/flow — a schema the reader needs to run through real works.