Video as a medium has consolidated diverse forms into homogeneous flowing style

Evidence

Immediacy video refracts the style projects we’ve tracked in other aesthetic fields: redaction of medium and form toward immanentized phenomenal experience; privatization of perspective from point-of-view and direct-address camerawork to customized content; an emptying out of figuration and fictionality in favor of ambience and affect, presence and expressivity, solvent and sadism. Contemporary cultural production prizes circulation, practicing flow and emanation in a bizarre swirl of emptiness and extremity that has come to define modes across media. It is a prizing so pinched that the heterogeneous composition of video as medium has curiously consolidated into the style of homogeneous flow. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels her earlier catalogues of immediacy in fiction, theory, and film — the chapter synopsis of the book’s central taxonomy.