Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism keyword-african-politics Ben Kindler

Ben Kindler

Over the last two decades

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Named as a traitor by Zia

Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism keyword-african-politics Ben KindlerContemporary 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