The stream’s voluminous circulation itself conditions the form of content

Evidence

It is this deluge itself—the crush, speed, and immanence of circulation—that ultimately defines the stream. Not just how we consume TV, movies, games, and their increasing indistinction, the stream is therefore also what we consume. The material quantity of streaming content and the material qualities of the circulatory apparatus come now to condition the form of what appears, eventuating in the aesthetics of flood, fluidity, and flow. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 203

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the crystallizing thesis move — consumption apparatus conditions formal aesthetics, so ‘the stream is what we consume.’ It’s a dense mediation-of-mediation point that rewards sustained attention.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s central task: this is Kornbluh’s causal claim that circulation speed shapes cultural form, structurally parallel to Jameson’s postmodernism thesis.