Immediacy would seem to be the defining cultural style of our moment. From video to social media and from autofiction to autotheory, the tendency is towards direct intensity of experience and away from the mediations of form, genre, and representation. What drives this turn to the immediate in art, culture, and even politics? What do we lose in this turn to immediacy? 

Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy: Or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism, joins us to discuss the effects of “disintermediation.”

In this episode, we discuss the following thinkers/ideas/texts/etcs.:

• Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
• Jerome’s Sports Bar in Portland, ME
• The New Inquiry‘s coverage of The University of Austin
• The Sting (Film, 1973)
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
• G.W.F. Hegel
• Jean-François Lyotard
• Marina Abramović’s performance piece The Artist is Present (MOMA)
• Theodor W. Adorno

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