Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism keyword-african-politics Over the last two decades

Over the last two decades

Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence

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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism keyword-african-politics Over the last two decadesContemporary 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