The boundedness of artforms is necessary to theorize social immediacies

Evidence

Interpretation of cultural production through mediated forms like literature and video is a different kind of work than the analysis of phenomena like ecocide, capitalism, and the state; it presumes, rather, that the boundedness of artforms is necessary for representing and theorizing the immediacies of social life. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 367

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core of the reader’s goal: naming mediation as essential to representing immediacy — the boundedness of form is itself a theory of immediacy.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated purpose: the defense of mediation as politically necessary.