Television can offer mediating perspective that streaming aesthetics void

Evidence

Fictional consciousness, a volume outside of embodied knowledge, has an analogue in the mediating, sweeping, disidentificatory point of view possible in televisuality (albeit voided in most contemporary streaming content). In “Video,” we saw the moving-image arts of immediacy prioritize the stream: colonoscopy cinematography, fluid nongenre, looping nonplot, intimate confessions, and gushing irruptions. So, what are anti-stream aesthetics? — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 354

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the stream aesthetic (what immediacy looks like on screen) against which anti-stream shows are measured.