Theory’s embrace of immediacy compounds broader deskilling and anti-expert culture

Evidence

It is widely observed that ours is a culture of post-truth and anti-expert populism, in which every man does his own research in his own corner of the internet. Individuals live in impenetrable information bubbles; cults and conspiracies are on the rise; science rejection has been modeled by the world’s largest corporations’ knowing acceleration of atmospheric carbonization, a trickle-down denialism manifesting in vaccine truthers, home schoolers, and cabal believers. Immediacy reason issues from plutocratic destruction of public education and independent media, but it also bears the imprint of theory’s divestment from knowledge and individuation of epistemology. Circling viciously, immediacy style for theory actively suborns further deskilling of academic labor. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 251

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• XREF: connects to: Music writers’ disclaimers of theory mirror rock bands’ anti-intellectual mantras and reinforce consumerism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1212