Selfie immediacy is totalized while Burtynsky’s scale deliberately stays incomplete

Evidence

Selfies, as Kardashian makes them, are wholes unto themselves, deep gaze, lush corporeality without background, on-demand immediacy. Scapes as Burtynsky makes them are enormous and complex, but unwhole—magnitude deployed to decomplete, immensity that relativizes itself with the allusion to all that is unimaged and unimagined. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 332

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply contrasts immediacy (selfie as whole, self-contained) with mediation (scape as deliberately unwhole, incomplete) — a clean pair of named features.