Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism - Anna Kornbluh exhibitions pursued their Design and Research

pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture

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Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism - Anna Kornbluh exhibitions pursued their Design and ResearchWhy speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style 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