The passion for the real intensifies across the twentieth century and fuels violent acts.

Evidence

Neorealisms extremize an ideological conceit of nonrepresentation and immediacy—a conceit not necessarily held by historical realists who worked in antiphenomenal omniscience, but one that remains attractive as a fantasy of un-art. Some critical discourse about neorealism is not celebratory; the philosopher Alain Badiou, for instance, cautions that the “passion for the real,” an obsession with “what is immediately practicable, here and now” intensifies over the course of the twentieth century and lurks behind great acts of violence. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Badiou’s warning gives the reader ammunition for the Antitheory chapter fight — a theoretically serious case against immediacy from within the philosophical canon.
• SEED: An essay connecting the aesthetic fetish of immediacy to political violence (via Badiou) would sharpen the reader’s ‘immediacy as politically dangerous’ thesis.