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Title: Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Condition: New
Author: Anna Kornbluh
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 180429134X
EAN: 9781804291344
ISBN: 9781804291344
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Date: 30/01/2024
Description: Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that aesthetics negate mediation. Surging realness as an aesthetic program synchs with the economic imperative to intensify circulation when production stagnates. "Flow" is the ultimate twenty-first-century buzzword, but speedy circulation grinds art down to the nub. And the bad news is that political turmoil and social challenges require more mediation. Collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out, but our dominant style forgoes them. Considering original streaming TV, popular literature, artworld trends, and academic theories, Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion and today's intolerance of representation, and points to alternative forms in photography, TV, novels, and constructive theory that prioritize distance, impersonality, and big ideas instead.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 230g
Release Year: 2024

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