Second-person address functions as an immediatist tactic to evade representation of another.

Evidence

The melt that opposes itself to genre bounds or defined job responsibilities or making sense pools on the page as a rejection of linguistic mediation: theory, genre, and even words all miss the mark. “I am not interested in a hermeneutics, or an erotics, or a metaphorics, of my anus. I am interested in ass-fucking.” In service of the immediatist intimacies generated in this raising of theory only to reject it, Nelson theorizes the pronouns of her prose, circumventing representation of her gender-nonconforming partner by addressing them instead: “I want the you no one else can see, the you so close the third person never need apply.” Representation itself is constantly at issue, the insufficiency of words. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 139

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names a concrete formal feature of immediatist prose: addressing a ‘you’ to bypass third-person representation of a gender-nonconforming partner.