The dangers of Immediacy: why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural Style Contemporary cultural Style rejects mediation in favor of direct access, extreme affect, and rapid uptake.
Considering original streaming tv, popular fiction, artworld trends, and academic theories, Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion, authenticity, and total transparency, and it points to alternative forms of representation in photography, tv, novels, and constructive theory, that prioritize distance, impersonality, and big ideas instead..
Collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out, but our dominant Style undoes them.
And the bad news is, the political turmoil and social challenges we face, climate crisis foremost among them, require more rather than less mediation.
Circulation strives to be instantaneous, with flow the ultimate 21st century buzzword, but these speedy gears grind art down to the nub.
Smearing our noses in realness seems to be the only goal of much of contemporary culture, and that goal synchs with the economic imperative to intensify circulation when production stagnates.
Immediacy names this Style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of 21st century Capitalism demand that art pretend it isn\'t.
Like Uber, but for art.
These are values it borrows from the economic conditions of disintermediation cutting out the middleman.
The dangers of Immediacy: why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural Style Contemporary cultural Style rejects mediation in favor of direct access, extreme affect, and rapid uptake
